[Rubygems-developers] Reviewing the Tattle Data (was RubyGems plaform thread)

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

Eric Hodel wrote:
> If you find tattle is reporting information you don't want public  
> after you've published it, you should have checked out what it was  
> doing first and not run tattle.
> 
> (While the first release of tattle didn't have the report option, it  
> was still simple enough to visit the tattle report page or inspect  
> the source to discover what was being reported.)

If you didn't want a security hole in your system you should have read 
all the code first.

Sound a little silly?

I still haven't heard how the prefix information is useful, or why it 
couldn't just be eliminated/turned off now that a few people have raised 
concerns about it. What use is this information? Why keep it?

- Charlie