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Include additional debugging information?

We might add the possibility to include logs, debugging info etc., perhaps something like the Incognito script does.

Nota bene:

that script was mostly written for the Incognito developer's own personal usage
scrubbing of IP/MAC addresses from ifconfig output and similar sensitive information should of course be done in order to not compromise the real users.

Agreed. I imported this script and adapted it a bit.

Pending questions:

How useful would the cleaned-up ifconfig and iwconfig output be? I am in favour of not including them at all, and removed them from the script.

After testing this script, I can't think of any other privacy-sensitive information that needs to be cleaned-up. Any idea?

I don't like the idea that this script being defaults, as I fear that the information that it discloses give the machine model.

Computers being mass-market products, I don't consider this is a huge problem, providing the user is clearly warned about it.

OK, let's say that giving that in addition the mail is encrypted, there's no problem to disclose that.

Should this be an option provided in the GUI? If yes, opt-in or opt-out? I believe we should make this the default, not provide any way to disable it, but warn the user about it and display a link to inspect the tarball's content. What do you think?

As a result of comment in #2, I would prefere an option in the GUI, and preferabily an opt-in. But it could be answered that the mail will be encrypted and on opt-out could not be so bad...

... Especially as the e-mail is going to be send encrypted to the amnesia developers. Once you have decided you trust them enough to build the Live OS you use for privacy-sensitive matters, I believe you trust them enough to disclose (anonymously) your computer model, too.

What would be the files to copy on Debian instead of the Gentoo's /etc/sysconfig/*?