When running wizznic I get this warning on the commandline:

Thread: system('wget http://dusted.dk/wizznic/commit.php -O - -q --user-agent=wizznicLinux --timeout=10 --tries=1 --post-data="version=v0.9.2-preview2&pack=/usr/share/games/wizznic/packs/000_wizznic&level=0&time=0&moves=0&combos=0&score=0&action=check"') Failed.

This indicates that wizznic is calling home without my permission. That
is unacceptable, please get upstream to remove it or prompt me for
permission.

I cannot replicate the bug:
I removed wizznic configs prior to installing the debian package (for i386):
rm -R ~/.wizznic

Then installed the packages from unstable:
dpkg -i wizznic*

Then ran wizznic:
wizznic

Pressing control after the intro/demo screen, gives me
=== Information stuffs, which tells people about the feature. I've
attached screenshots.

Where people are able to either press CTRL to accept/continue OR press
ALT to reject and turn off the feature.
Before this have been done, the feature is disabled and no data will be
sent.
Furthermore in options there is an option to disable or enable if one
changes mind about it later.

I will not ask people upon every single upstart/levelchange as this will
not allow me to gather statistics.
I gather stats to follow the distribution of installations
(windows/linux) and to figure out the ordering/difficulty of the levels.

I'm sorry for any inconvinience this have caused my packager.
Best Regards
 Jimmy Christensen / Wizznic author

Firstly I'd like to apologise for not having responded sooner. On the
Debian bug tracking system, submitters are not subscribed by default,
you need to CC them if you want them to read your replies.

I am sorry, it appears I was not aware of this feature. I probably just
saw a wall of text and the press Ctrl thing at the bottom and pressed
Ctrl to get through. I think that just shows that the implementation of
the feature in 0.9.2 has some usability issues.

I have taken a look at the code and the stats screen again and I have
some suggestions for changes to make it more usable and secure:

Re-implement the initial screen to look like this:

Alt to not send statistics

Ctrl to send statistics

Shift for privacy policy

The third option should bring up your privacy policy so people can read
about what you plan to do with the submitted information.

Using the system() function is a bad idea because it passes a full
command to the shell and inclusion of shell meta-characters can
interfere with the command running correctly. You should use the fork
and exec functions on Linux instead. For Windows I don't think there is
any way around this issue.

Use a https URL instead of http, to protect the info that is sent from
people who are monitoring the network connection.

Use certificate pinning to prevent compromise of SSL CAs allowing
compromise of the info that is sent, more info here:

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/authenticity-is-broken-in-ssl-but-your-app-ha/

BTW, why doesn't your github repository have any tags in it?

for submitting the data (wget on Linux) is not installed. I didn't check
if you are doing this already.

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