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During the 0.81 release process, I found out that the Windows Store now requires applications to provide a privacy policy, so I had to write one in order to get 0.81 into the Store. This initially seemed like makework (especially having to do it in a hurry as a prerequisite to get a really important security fix distributed!). But after I started writing it, I found there was actually quite a lot to say. It's easy to think "PuTTY doesn't phone home to the developers, that's all, we're done". But of course it _does_ store information on your machine (host key cache, saved sessions, etc). And it does send information to servers on the network (only the ones you ask it to, but even so). And it's not 100% obvious in every case what is and isn't stored, and what a privacy- conscious individual might be revealing about themself by doing this or that thing. So I think the web page I hastily put up at the time of the 0.81 release deserves to be promoted into part of the documentation. Here's a (very lightly) copy-edited version in the form of a docs appendix. (Once this is committed and built, I expect I'll turn the privacy web page into a mirror of this docs appendix, in the same way as the website FAQ and feedback pages.) |
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