[wp-hackers] Revisiting phone home and privacy

[Otto]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Austin Matzko <if.website at gmail.com> wrote:
> You omitted (in my mind) the big one:
>
> * All plugins, active and inactive, in your plugins directory

The thing is expressly designed to check for plugin updates. You can't
check for updates to a plugin without actually telling the update
server what the plugins actually are.

If this is a privacy issue for you, then there's means already
available to disable the update checks entirely.

-Otto