[Moonlight-list] Moonlight's privacy?

[Chris Toshok]

I would say that most of that thread is over-reaction to the legalese, 
rather than something to worry about.

I don't know the type of communication silverlight does between the 
client and MS per connection, but moonlight doesn't do anything like 
that (doesn't send data to MS or Novell, or anyone).

That said, as is indicated in that thread, much of the info from 
Silverlight's EULA is par for the course when it comes to a browser.  
TCP + the user agent string gives you most of that info.

One thing moonlight does (and presumably silverlight also) is check for 
updates.  We use Firefox's extension mechanism, so every time you start 
up the browser, or click the Find Updates button in the Add-ons dialog, 
firefox will query a url (e.g. 
http://go-mono.com/archive/moonlight-plugins/updates/update-2.0-i586.rdf 
for the x86 2.0 plugin) to see if there's an update.

Chris

On 10/11/2009 07:21 PM, Paranoid User wrote:
> Does Moonlight also sends out your hardware-id to websites and MS? It is not
> possible to disable this in Silverlight, but Moonlight might not even do
> this. This would be a problem if they could get all kinds of information
> about you, since hardware-id are unique and could be identifiable.
>
> Well I visited a site that required Silverlight, and after seeing this
> thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1584044 , I'm not
> so sure about installing it.
>
>
> Silverlight's privacy:
> Internet-enabled features in software will send information about your
> computer ("standard computer information") to the Web sites you visit and
> Web services you use. This information is generally not personally
> identifiable. Standard computer information typically includes information
> such as your IP address, operating system version, browser version, your
> hardware ID which indicates the device manufacturer, device name, and
> version, application version and your regional and language settings. In
> this case, the application version would be the version of Silverlight
> installed on your device. Silverlight contains an update notification
> feature that sends standard computer information to Microsoft.
>