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From: elaich on 11 Aug 2010 16:18
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:52:23 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio wrote:

> "Just uploaded to the Ubuntu Lucid repository for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
> (and we imagine it will appear shortly in Maverick too for Ubuntu
> 10.10) is a new package called canonical-census, which marks its
> initial release. Curious about what this package provides, we did
> some digging and found it's for tracking Ubuntu installations by
> sending an 'I am alive' ping to Canonical on a daily basis. When
> the canonical-census package is installed, the program is to be
> added to the daily Cron jobs to be executed so that each day it
> will report to Canonical over HTTP the number of times this system
> previously sent to Canonical (this counter is stored locally and
> with it running on a daily basis it's thereby indicating how many
> days the Ubuntu installation has been active), the Ubuntu
> distributor channel, the product name as acquired by the system's
> DMI information, and which Ubuntu release is being used. That's all
> that canonical-census does, at least for now. Previously there
> haven't been such Ubuntu tracking measures attempted by Canonical."

heh
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