On 1/28/10 3:08 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Thu Jan 28 21:57:53 2010, Ben Schumacher wrote: >> As the person responsible for the offlist poking, I feel I should step >> up and point out that stamping delay constitutes a presence leak. If I >> had a privacy list that blocked you, Dave, from receiving my presence >> while I'm online then I got offline and the server then decides to >> respond to probes that indicate when I was last online, you now know >> that I was online and trying to hide that fact from you. >> >> > Yuck. Yes, and if you just noted that sometimes the server did include > useful data, and sometimes it didn't, then you'd know whether the > contact had been (or still is) online with a privacy list active. > > How horrible that we need to throw away a perfectly good bit of > functionality to satisfy privacy lists. Well, you'll still know that the contact is offline, you just won't know all the juicy details. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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