simon-git: putty (main): Simon Tatham

[Commits to Tartarus hosted VCS]

TL;DR:
  b7da41a1 Add a docs appendix about privacy considerations.

Repository:     https://git.tartarus.org/simon/putty.git
On the web:     https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git
Branch updated: main
Committer:      Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date:           2024-09-27 10:35:07

commit b7da41a1a3b5e3595b7d3be0f7116c2f74e80d98
web diff https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7da41a1a3b5e3595b7d3be0f7116c2f74e80d98;hp=f80955488acdd3deccfc55dbff23124dd20318af
Author: Simon Tatham <anakin at pobox.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 27 10:14:41 2024 +0100

    Add a docs appendix about privacy considerations.
    
    During the 0.81 release process, I found out that the Windows Store
    now requires applications to provide a privacy policy, so I had to
    write one in order to get 0.81 into the Store.
    
    This initially seemed like makework (especially having to do it in a
    hurry as a prerequisite to get a really important security fix
    distributed!). But after I started writing it, I found there was
    actually quite a lot to say. It's easy to think "PuTTY doesn't phone
    home to the developers, that's all, we're done". But of course it
    _does_ store information on your machine (host key cache, saved
    sessions, etc). And it does send information to servers on the
    network (only the ones you ask it to, but even so). And it's not 100%
    obvious in every case what is and isn't stored, and what a privacy-
    conscious individual might be revealing about themself by doing this
    or that thing.
    
    So I think the web page I hastily put up at the time of the 0.81
    release deserves to be promoted into part of the documentation. Here's
    a (very lightly) copy-edited version in the form of a docs appendix.
    
    (Once this is committed and built, I expect I'll turn the privacy web
    page into a mirror of this docs appendix, in the same way as the
    website FAQ and feedback pages.)

 doc/CMakeLists.txt |   1 +
 doc/privacy.but    | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 211 insertions(+)