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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by pjmlp on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:15AM (#27745450)
There are plenty of ways to collect said information, it isn't a couple of log files that are going to save anyone.

Try to live in a society where everyone, including your closest family members, might collect such information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIDE

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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by Nextgrid on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:47AM (#27746571)
This still requires the adversary to coerce your friends/family members into snitching on you - it involves effort and risk for them and doesn't scale.

Compromising a telemetry server is a one-off operation, would work at scale and is much less risky as the targets have no way to detect it.

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Re:Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash repor... by pjmlp on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:01AM (#27746673)
Some never needed to be coerced, that is the whole issue.
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