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Comment by JoshTriplett

20 hours ago

> Honest question, what's the problem with crash dumps that include no personal info?

In addition to the other response: crash dumps are difficult to anonymize, both because useful crash dumps include something like a minidump (or some other small alternative to a core file), and because even without that, any random information from a backtrace may be sensitive (e.g. a URL).

There's nothing wrong with saving a crash dump and giving the user control of whether to submit a bug report.

I'm more thinking Python crashes, where you just get the lines that executed, and ~zero identifiable data.