Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga client startup sequence - all contacts sent to the server.

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Eugene Kanter wrote:
> Damien,
> 
> I believe sending contacts out without informing the user is a severe
> privacy violation.
> 
> Comments, anyone?

Each contact you have is there because you use it sometimes.  And when
you use it, the server knows that and can potentially store it.  So
hiding the contacts does not reduce your privacy in fact.

> Eugene.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
> 
>>  Le dimanche 03 janvier 2010 à 23:23 -0500, Eugene Kanter a écrit :
>>
>> Debugging some connectivity problems I noticed that upon startup ekiga
>> sends SUBSCRIBE requests for every entry in Contacts tab. For example:
>>
>> Request-Line: SUBSCRIBE sip:501 ekiga net SIP/2.0
>>
>> and server replies with
>>
>> Status-Line: SIP/2.0 489 Event Not Supported
>>
>> Why would ekiga advertise one's contact list contents?
>>
>>
>> It tries subscribing to various types of events :
>> - presence changes
>> - call notifications
>>
>> Not all events are supported by all servers, Ekiga just tries them all.
>>
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