Apache Gets Big Brother Award In Germany

nomis writes: "Our favourite Webserver got one more award: The German issue of the Big Brother award, which blames privacy problems and tries to enforce a public discussion on this topic. Reason is the (from the technical point of view) unnecessary logging of various information (IP-Number etc.). The reasons for the award are described in German here. Basically the ability to log various information provokes user tracking and abuse of the collected data. I think they have a point. At least the default Configuration should log sparsely..." Interesting point.