Author: intrigeri Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] How to remove identifying information in bug
reports?
Hi,
Alan wrote (25 Feb 2014 15:04:47 GMT) : > I wonder what would be a good fix to that issue. We could keep on adding
> patterns to the regexp, the that looks like an endless blacklist
> approach. However I fail to see how to take a white-list approach on
> this without killing the whole purpose of this additional information.
Agreed.
> The only idea I have is to remove everything that follow the "serial"
> word, matching case insensitive. That would work for most issues that
> have been discovered yet, but would also remove some non-harming lines.
Looks good to me. Perhaps also detect "S/N" and similar.