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Remove all the "phone home" BOINC features. #9

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
BOINC does a lot of network activity without permission from the user. This
is bad, not to mention unethical.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by didacty...@gmail.com on 21 Aug 2008 at 7:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=3054

Original comment by nicolas....@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2008 at 2:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
See also #4.

Original comment by didacty...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2008 at 8:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by nicolas....@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2008 at 2:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by didacty...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2008 at 8:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Does this involve totally removing the project list in the Attach project 
wizard?

Original comment by nicolas....@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2008 at 10:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
That would be a quick fix. I'd prefer a mechanism where users can get a list 
(maybe 
even from Berkeley) by clicking a button. But removing it altogether is an 
option.

Original comment by didacty...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2008 at 6:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
r394 disables update notification.

Original comment by nicolas....@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2008 at 12:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by didacty...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 2:12

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Allowing to change the URL to get the list from is issue 4.

Original comment by nicolas....@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2008 at 12:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Doing this cleanly would involve:
- Moving the list download code to the manager (it's a UI feature, the daemon 
shouldn't be involved).
- Providing some way to change what URL it gets downloaded from.
- Providing some way to refresh (it's debatable if it should refresh 
automatically).

That's quite a few GUI changes, and I'm a wxWidgets newbie :) My suggestion is 
to 
disable the feature as it's currently implemented (so it doesn't download 
anything 
from Berkeley), and do it correctly on our next release (or the next to that). 
We 
could bundle the .xml file with our release so that the list still works, even 
if 
it's not automatically updated.

Original comment by nicolas....@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2008 at 12:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This sounds like a good compromise. Go for it. Create a new issue?

Original comment by didacty...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2008 at 12:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Fixed in r413. The long-term suggestions for the project list will be in 
separate 
issues.

Original comment by nicolas....@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2008 at 1:26