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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Sven Ladegast <sven@linux4geeks.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:25:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125444317.13646.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508310033400.1930@cassini.linux4geeks.de>

On Mer, 2005-08-31 at 00:43 +0200, Sven Ladegast wrote:
> collection has. What data does klive send? Is the data just a hash of
> different system variables or is it also possible to identify one single 
> computer (or person)? Data protection...laws etc. are things that must be 
> considered too maybe.

My thinking is something like this

"Register a box + optional PCI id list/CPU info"
Reply with a secured serial number 

Uptime data then can just be boot number, time up


> I think the problem is not the technical implementation. The bigger 
> problem is the data, where it comes from and the most interesting point 
> what to do with it at the end.

We don't need personally identifiable data (email, name, ip address etc)

What to do with it will be most interesting indeed.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-30  3:09 Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30  8:01 ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-30  8:29   ` Rogier Wolff
2005-08-30  8:53     ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-30  9:40       ` Rogier Wolff
2005-08-30  9:54         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-08-30 15:10         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 16:33           ` Alan Cox
2005-08-30 16:16             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 16:56               ` Alan Cox
2005-08-30 16:40                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-31 18:32               ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-01 15:19                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 16:36             ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-30 22:11         ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-31  1:49           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-31 19:14             ` tony.luck
2005-08-31 19:47               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-09-05 18:26                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 14:45     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 14:36   ` Alan Cox
2005-08-30 22:43     ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-30 23:25       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-08-30 23:19         ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-31 13:34           ` Alan Cox
2005-08-31 14:28             ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-31 21:23               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 14:56   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-31 18:20     ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-01 15:23       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-09-01 12:26     ` Sven Ladegast
2005-09-05 22:05 ` Marc Giger
2005-09-05 23:13   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 17:08 Wilkerson, Bryan P
2005-08-30 17:44 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-30 20:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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