[MacTUG] UW Emerge on the Macs

[Ian Turner]

agree,
it just bugged me at the time,
and it was advertised as a "broadcast service", so I had just assumed 
(and we know about "assume")!!  it was "machine based" not "person based"

On 2011/01/31 15:30 , Mike Patterson wrote:
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> On 2011/01/31 3:18 PM, Ian Turner wrote:
>> that's one reason I backed out the change on my machine - it violates
>>   privacy, and that wasn't very clear to me in the advertising
>
> How do you mean it violates privacy? When a user logs in, it's already
> logged at least locally that they've done so, and when. As soon as they
> hit one of a few sites on campus, their username is logged in ONA as the
> last user of that device. There's probably other logs as well, those are
> just the ones that spring immediately to mind.
>
> I obviously agree that it's a good thing to think about privacy, and
> encourage it, I'm just not sure how Emerge is special in this regard.  :-)
>
> Mike
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