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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by _d7dt on Monday July 05, 2021 @10:35PM (#27743735)
With that, I would say good luck troubleshooting your server if you don't collect any logs whatsoever. I wonder how you would even protect against bruteforcing and DDOS attacks if you never stored IP addresses for any amount of time.
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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by Nextgrid on Monday July 05, 2021 @10:45PM (#27743782)
But unlike a server, a desktop app isn't vulnerable to any of those issues that would require logs to defend against.
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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by _d7dt on Monday July 05, 2021 @10:56PM (#27743826)
The issue here is that the server you downloaded the desktop app from is. You can reduce the amount of this you have to deal with by shipping a native app, but you can't get rid of it entirely as long as you plan to host a web site or a download of something, or if you plan to let users communicate useful things back to you (such as their hardware specs, OS version, crash reports, usage patterns, etc).
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