Sure. First and foremost, do you have permission from your customers who you're researching and reporting on here? If you do, great, ignore me. If not you'd be breaching (my) trust if I was one of them. The data is not yours and it may be possible to infer who these datapoints belong to if so desired. If one could do that, they may be able to gain competitive advantage or otherwise exploit knowledge of infrastructure (social engineering for example).
There is a big difference, IMO, in someone like backblaze releasing statistics. They own all of the hardware and they choose to release the data themselves. You (on the surface) appear to be harvesting data from your customers, digging through it, and presenting it. You also point out very specific cases, rather than aggregate pseudonymous data.
You are collecting sensitive data from your customers environments. This doesn't inspire confidence that you treat it as such.
pheleven|7 years ago
There is a big difference, IMO, in someone like backblaze releasing statistics. They own all of the hardware and they choose to release the data themselves. You (on the surface) appear to be harvesting data from your customers, digging through it, and presenting it. You also point out very specific cases, rather than aggregate pseudonymous data.
You are collecting sensitive data from your customers environments. This doesn't inspire confidence that you treat it as such.