GSi VariSpeed

[Lotuz2019]

Oh oh, this is going in the wrong direction. Just imagine what Sell & Buy will look like when the seller has to rate the condition of the plugins on sale.

[Spitfire31]

FOR SALE: Varispeed in excellent condition. Tape only run at low speed for a few minutes on Sunday afternoons.

As Guido explained at Slutz, the caveat in the manual only refers to the physical machines. But it would be a neat trick, wouldn't it?

[Electric Mayhem]

You are trying to dance on the head of a pin here.

You have skipped two pages of discussion on this topic. I have responded on that a few posts behind.

I haven't skipped anything.
I saw that you back-tracked on harvesting this sensitive data. That's not the point.
What concerns me is -
A: You thought it was perfectly acceptable to do it in the first place
B: Tried to justify it by claiming it not to be personal data

[Spitfire31]

Pack up your "concerns" and go somewhere else, will you?

[Aloysius]

No fookin way I'm installing this.

[GaryG]

You are trying to dance on the head of a pin here.

You have skipped two pages of discussion on this topic. I have responded on that a few posts behind.

I haven't skipped anything.
I saw that you back-tracked on harvesting this sensitive data. That's not the point.
What concerns me is -
A: You thought it was perfectly acceptable to do it in the first place
B: Tried to justify it by claiming it not to be personal data

Listening to people's concerns and doing the right thing is not backtracking.

Also have you read the GDPR legislation? Even the simplified versions aimed at getting businesses up to speed is complex to say there least. The authority I work for had lawyers debating what constitutes personal data so I'm willing to give a music software developer the benefit of the doubt on this.

[jancivil]

I would think the person genuinely worried about 'sensitive data' being gleaned by one or the other mechanism wouldn't use their real name as the computer user name let alone in the computer name. My computer's name is MacIntosh Hard Drive. I'm not even concerned with this level of it, and I won't use my whole real name to ident this machine.

[Electric Mayhem]

Pack up your "concerns" and go somewhere else, will you?

No, I won't "go somewhere else" It's a forum and I'm just as entitled to an opinion (which is based on I.T. industry standard good practice) as you are

This has absolutely nothing to do with GDPR or whether it's possible to determine someone's name from a computer name.
It is a fundamental I.T. security issue and also a User Name is personal data by definition.
I'm not going to have anything to do with a developer who doesn't get this basic principle until it's pointed out to him by users on an internet forum.

It is standard practice in the I.T. industry when sending log / dump files to a vendor, to redact the following:
Computer Name, User Name, IP address. For security reasons.

We all have a choice and if people are so desperate for 'free' plug-ins (if a product or service is offered free then, generally speaking you are the product ) then go ahead and install it.

[Spitfire31]

[jancivil]

I installed it because I like the idea of it and I have good experience with the developer. I'm so far from desperate for plugins it isn't even funny. There isn't any call to insult people like that just because not everybody thinks the same way about this as you. After insulting the developer offering a gift. Wanting to know the extent of one platform vs the other doesn't seem like a great big ask to me. And the intent to portray this guy as stupid following the accusations of bad intent... well, perfect KVR self-righteousness, such a hard stance on such a trivial matter, seems mean to me. Yet looking at the up- & down-voting it looks like the prevalent sentiment.
Gross.

[Spitfire31]

I installed it because I like the idea of it and I have good experience with the developer. I'm so far from desperate for plugins it isn't even funny. There isn't any call to insult people like that just because not everybody thinks the same way about this as you. After insulting the developer offering a gift. Wanting to know the extent of one platform vs the other doesn't seem like a great big ask to me. And the intent to portray this guy as stupid following the accusations of bad intent... well, perfect KVR self-righteousness, such a hard stance on such a trivial matter, seems mean to me. Yet looking at the up- & down-voting it looks like the prevalent sentiment.
Gross.

[Electric Mayhem]

...
There isn't any call to insult people like that just because not everybody thinks the same way about this as you. After insulting the developer offering a gift.
...
And the intent to portray this guy as stupid following the accusations of bad intent... well, perfect KVR self-righteousness, such a hard stance on such a trivial matter, seems mean to me. Yet looking at the up- & down-voting it looks like the prevalent sentiment.
Gross.

Pointing out that the developer is deviating from standard IT security practice is hardly 'insulting'.
The developer showed his own ignorance by claiming on a public forum that something which, by definition is personal data (your computer user account name), was 'not personal data'.

I never once said the developer was 'stupid', that was your word.

If you feel that it is ' trivial matter', please go ahead publish your computer name and user account on the internet.
There is nothing trivial about keeping ones' computer secure ...

[dawlab67]

lots of stuff calls home. you wouldn't know where to begin with. how about your windoze, for starters? the Goog creature? his bud Amazonian anaconda? the rotten apple? the "evil inside" and chlamvidia? federal intelligence programs? OK, some of your other plugins that have EULA written in text comprehensible only under scrupulous microscope inspection?

all these guys check your real tunnel on a daily basis, how about it? I don't see your outrage.

now, before you even begin opening VariSpeed in your DAW, no wait, let me paraphrase..

by the time you even think of doing something, by inertia you put on your slippers, your smelly old robe, you take a sip of your cold yesterday's coffee with a cigarette in it, your brain starts to show first signs of activity, you push the power button, you've already went through the procedure of anal processing from these fellas. done. it's too late to wave your hands in hysterical fashion.

I'm sorry, people, but Guido is not the evilest crooked old bastid spying on you. uh uh, he isn't. he's underachieving, he's not even top 100. anti-climatic and disappointing, I know, but there's people out there you really should be concerned about.

what you genuinely must be freaking out and roaring about on every corner, is, if they make lifetime imprisonments of people like Assange a common practice for all whistleblowers, a friggin' tape delay plugin with a stinkin' promo page will be the least of your problems for the rest of your life. that's when you know you are screwed "1984" style without any lubricant.

wake up, people in tin foil hats. you're not woke enough. you're looking in the wrong direction.

[VariKusBrainZ]

you put on your slippers, your smelly old robe, you take a sip of your cold yesterday's coffee with a cigarette in it, your brain starts to show first signs of activity, you push the power button, you've already went through the procedure of anal processing from these fellas. done. it's too late to wave your hands in hysterical fashion.

Did you forget to mention your daily dose of anti depressant

[dawlab67]

Did you forget to mention your daily dose of anti depressant

I might have, but I think they spent all money on crack, so a daily dose of anti-depressant is dissolved in that cold yesterday's coffee with a cigarette in it.