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Re: [TSVN] TortoiseSVN calling home?

From: Alex Holst <a_at_mongers.org>
Date: 2006-04-13 21:11:06 CEST

Quoting Molle Bestefich (molle.bestefich@gmail.com):
> Which is why I use the firewall to disable phone home for any
> applications that aren't polite enough to ask in the first place, not
> just TSVN.

You do understand that any applications you install and run can do
whatever you can do, including manipulate your firewall ruleset, kill
the firewall, etc?

If you don't trust the *documented* version check, how can you trust the
application not to subvert your firewall?

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when it's more bare, more hollow.                http://a.mongers.org 
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