[Bf-committers] Blender connecting to web (or cloud services)

[Francesco Siddi]

Hi,

The Blender ID add-on requires explicit user actions in order to connect to the Internet (the user has to enter credentials and press Login).

Francesco

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Francesco Siddi - francesco at blender.org - www.blender.org
Producer at Blender Institute - https://blender.institute
Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018 AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands

On 3 October 2017 at 08:09:00, Campbell Barton (ideasman42 at gmail.com) wrote:

Quite sure this is still true, checked current add-ons, there are a  
few that download/upload content but these are all explicit actions.  

- game_engine_publishing, operator to download blenderplayer for other  
platforms.  
- io_online_sketchfab: operator to upload content (the main purpose of  
the add-on).  

I'm not sure about blender-id, from the readme it seems like add-ons  
that use it would not be doing some hidden/background communication -  
Francesco/Sybren can better speak to this.  

From a quick look at addons_contrib (not included in releases) these  
aren't doing any hidden communication either.  

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:30 AM, Vanangamudi <selva.developer at gmail.com> wrote:  
> Hi Ton,  
>  
> We are grateful for your care on user preferences over their privacy  
>  
> Thanks,  
>  
> Selva  
>  
>  
>  
> On 10/02/2017 11:20 PM, Ton Roosendaal wrote:  
>>  
>> Hi all,  
>>  
>> Just recently was contacted by two companies (Siemens, Airbus) who wanted  
>> know about Blender's license and whether the software would store any data  
>> online. Obviously they work with confidential IP that has to remain  
>> internal.  
>>  
>> I replied:  
>> ------  
>> We have a strict policy that Blender cannot connect to internet without  
>> explicit user permission.  
>> More over, the default install and they way we design tools are all meant  
>> to work without internet.  
>> We do have options to use cloud services, but these are addons that have  
>> to be manually enabled and saved in user startups."  
>> ------  
>>  
>> Just wanted to check here if that's still valid and commonly supported  
>> (especially for add-ons).  
>> I think it's a good core value to make Blender - in the way we offer  
>> installs - to work stand-alone without using networks.  
>>  
>> Privacy & security are tough topics :)  
>>  
>> Thanks,  
>>  
>> -Ton-  
>>  
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>> Ton Roosendaal - ton at blender.org - www.blender.org  
>> Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute  
>> Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands  
>>  
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