boot chart hidden upload ?!

(=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=) -- Fernando Ubuntu at bugabundo.net
Mon Oct 8 10:16:12 UTC 2007


Hi there.
I've installed bootchart, and I have to say its nice to see where our computer uses it time, while booting.
Nevertheless, while looking at the code of /etc/init.d/stop-bootchart, I saw this piece of code:

upload_chart()
{
    for item in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
        case $item in
            bootchart=*)
                boottype=$(echo "$item" | awk -F, '{print $2}')
                ;;
        esac
    done
    wget -O /dev/null -q --post-file $CHARTS/$base-$count.png http://bootchart.err.no/upload/$(lsb_release -si)/$(lsb_release -sc)/$(uname -r)/$(uname -m)/$boottype
}

Does this mean, that this apps, tries to upload our private results to a server without our knowledge?

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