[vlc-devel] [LATTE] Privacy, what might that mean?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

	Hello,

I realized today that VLC sends complete media locations to search engines via 
the meta stuff. Sorry for the rudeness but...
__        ___   _    _  _____   _____ _   _ _____   _____ _   _  ____ _  __
\ \      / / | | |  / \|_   _| |_   _| | | | ____| |  ___| | | |/ ___| |/ /
 \ \ /\ / /| |_| | / _ \ | |     | | | |_| |  _|   | |_  | | | | |   | ' /
  \ V  V / |  _  |/ ___ \| |     | | |  _  | |___  |  _| | |_| | |___| . \
   \_/\_/  |_| |_/_/   \_\_|     |_| |_| |_|_____| |_|    \___/ \____|_|\_\

Do I need to remind someone that the piece of software known as VLC media 
player is a fun but _serious_ development project used by millions?

Parsing all kind of harmful parameters from HTTP playlists was silly. Fetching 
software updates without any security checks was reckless (IIRC, Mozilla did 
the same mistake).

But, come on! That beats everything. How can someone write code without even 
remotely THINKING about CONSEQUENCES? This is not a computer security problem, 
this is common sense.

Needless to say, I am very pissed off, as one of many victimized users.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://git.remlab.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=vlc-courmisch.git;a=summary