BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

[Marc G. Fournier]

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- --On Friday, June 06, 2008 08:56:01 +0200 Julian Stacey <jhs at berklix.org>
wrote:

>> FreeBSD.  Any large installation will image drives or perform their
>> own custom installation and may very well not want their competitors
>> to know how many machines they are running.
>
> Some companies wont want their competitors, &/or suppliers/
> clients to even know What OS's they run, let alone how many.
>
> Some government departments too (whose `competitors' could include
> foreign governments, terrorists, thieves, & civil liberties groups etc).

Again, there is nothing on the site, or in the database, that links the host to 
any specific organization, or even IP ... month to month reporting is based on 
two generated 'keys' that are stored on the remote host, and passed to the 
reporting server, not the hostname/IP ...

This is *very* anonymous, for exactly the reasons you state above ...

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