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-Communications with servers - and your privacy
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-
-The Special Circumstances YPP PCTB client talks to two different
-servers for different purposes.
-
-(The information below is true if you invoke the system using the main
-`ypp-commodities' program. If you want to know the relationships
-between it and its various helper programs, and the specific
-behaviours of the helpers, you'll have to read the source. Sorry.)
-
-
-1. PCTB server
-==============
-
-This records everyone's uploads of commodity prices and allows you to
-conveniently search for good trade routes using the PCTB website.
-
-We upload to the PCTB server if you select the --upload option, and
-not otherwise.
-
-We also query the PCTB server to determine possible island names, if
-we don't recognise the island and want to ask you about it. It is not
-currently possible to disable this behaviour, but if you don't select
-an operating mode (like --upload) which needs to know your island, it
-won't happen.
-
-
-2. YPP SC PCTB client dictionary server
-=======================================
-
-This server maintains the master copies of various databases which are
-used to assist the OCR process. Collectively I call these
-`dictionaries'. There is a dictionary of character and island name
-images, of new commodity names, and of notable known OCR
-misrecognitions. These are used for the commodity screen OCR, for
-determining your island name, and for checking whether commodities not
-found on the PCTB server are real.
-
-By default, we ask the server for appropriate updated dictionaries
-every time we run; this is done with the rsync protocol (indeed, by
-invoking rsync). You can disable this with --dict-local-only.
-
-If we find a screen display we don't understand, we will ask you about
-it by popping up a window which allows you to select the island (or
-provide character set information - see README.charset). Your answers
-to these questions are recorded locally and will be used by your
-client in future.
-
-By default, these dictionary updates are also submitted to my server.
-That allows me to check them; if they are correct, I will include them
-in the master database so that everyone gets the benefit of them.
-If there are any incorrect submissions, I can contradict them in the
-master database so that your client will automatically behave
-correctly anyway.
-
-So, thanks for your help!
-
-
-Dictionary submissions (uploads) include your pirate name by default
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-
-These dictionary submissions are reported to me along with the ocean
-name and your pirate name.
-
-I will only use this to talk to you about your dictionary submissions
-(for example, to let you know if you have made a mistake, or to thank
-you for your contributions).
-
-However, if you prefer to be anonymous, you can tell your PCTB client
-not to mention your pirate name (in the GUI, or with the --dict-anon
-option). In this case I won't see your ocean or your pirate name,
-although of course the actual images in your submissions may reveal
-your island and thus your ocean.
-
-
-User interface for privacy
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-
-The dictionary submission feature, and whether to quote your pirate
-identity, is exposed in and controllable from the dictionary update
-GUI, for maximum visibility. The settings in the GUI are not recorded
-anywhere from one run to the next. If you want to consistently
-increase your privacy setting, use the --dict-* privacy options.
-See the table of options in the README for details.
-
-Having said all that, please do not upload data to the PCTB server
-without also participating in dictionary sharing. If you don't update
-your dictionary, your parses may be wrong and thus the data you upload
-to PCTB may be wrong. If you don't submit your dictionary entries,
-any mistakes you make will remain uncorrected.
-
-
-Records kept
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-
-I keep a permanent log of all the submissions, including date, time,
-submitting pirate or IP address, and YPP SC PCTB client version.
-This is so that I have enough information to go back and fix the
-dictionary if anything goes badly wrong (for example, if a particular
-client is broken).
-
-My rsync server (file server) also records your IP address when your
-client fetches new master dictionaries; those logs are used only for
-debugging the rsync server (which also serves many other files), and
-they are routinely expired, currently after about two months.
-
-The information about the source of a submissions doesn't appear in
-the dictionaries as available for download, so other people won't
-know you're using my program.
-
-I don't know what records the actual PCTB server keeps, but the upload
-process tells the server your ocean and island name, and your PCTB
-upload client version number (including the fact that it's this Linux
-client). The PCTB server is not told your pirate name.
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