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There are currently three privacy levels in NETI@home: LOW, MEDIUM, and HIGH.
In addition to the privacy levels, NETI@home creates a log file identical to the data that is sent to the NETI@home server to further verify privacy protection. If all else fails, and you still think we are secretly collecting your private data - read the source! As further food for thought, if you are really paranoid about an open-source application that professes to protect your privacy - shouldn't you be more concerned that all of the closed-source applications that you run could be doing anything they want?
The LOW privacy level allows NETI@home to collect all statistics. While these statistics are not directly a privacy invasion, some users may not wish to use this setting so that systems they communicate with, like websites, are not known. The authors of NETI@home strongly urge users to set their privacy level to LOW so that we can have the maximum amount of data possible. This data will allow us to find specific bottlenecks in the Internet.
Basically, a privacy setting of LOW allows NETI@home to collect the full IP address of local and remote hosts.
The MEDIUM privacy level allows NETI@home to collect all statistics with the exception of the source and destination IP addresses. Only the network part of the source and destination IP addresses are reported. So, the individual computers cannot be identified, but the overall network they belong to can, which will aid in various studies, especially those relating to the topology of the Internet. Some users may wish to use this privacy level if they do not want the individual systems they communicate with to be known, like certain web servers. This is the default setting.
The HIGH privacy level allows NETI@home to collect all statistics with the exception of the source and destination IP addresses as well as the multicast IP addresses used in IGMP. While we feel that the vast majority of users would not want to conceal such information, we thought it would be the right thing to do to allow this option, since your privacy is our greatest concern. Once again, NETI@home IS NOT SPYWARE.
NETI@home IS NOT SPYWARE
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