boot chart hidden upload ?!

From: ``-_-´´) -- Fernando <Ubuntu(at)bugabundo.net>
Date: Mon Oct 08 2007 - 06:16:12 EDT

Hi there.
I've installed bootchart, and I have to say its nice to see where our computer uses it time, while booting. Nevertheless, while looking at the code of /etc/init.d/stop-bootchart, I saw this piece of code:

upload_chart()
{

    for item in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do

        case $item in
            bootchart=*)
                boottype=$(echo "$item" | awk -F, '{print $2}')
                ;;
        esac

    done
    wget -O /dev/null -q --post-file $CHARTS/$base-$count.png http://bootchart.err.no/upload/$(lsb_release -si)/$(lsb_release -sc)/$(uname -r)/$(uname -m)/$boottype }

Does this mean, that this apps, tries to upload our private results to a server without our knowledge?

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Received on Mon Oct 8 11:12:18 2007