[tor-bugs] #5584 [Tor Relay]: Raise awareness of safer logging

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#5584: Raise awareness of safer logging
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 Reporter:  bastik                           |          Owner:                  
     Type:  enhancement                      |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal                           |      Milestone:                  
Component:  Tor Relay                        |        Version:  Tor: unspecified
 Keywords:  easy hack, awareness of logging  |         Parent:                  
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Comment(by arma):

 The default is to log at log-level notice, and we aim for all logs at that
 level to not be harmful to keep.

 So we definitely shouldn't do this "whenever logging is enabled". For
 example, it really frustrates me that the fedora rpm chose to turn off
 logs entirely -- we output useful things to the log, for example if your
 time is wrong, and it's worth having them.

 That said, we might consider a line like this if you are at info or more
 verbose, or if you set SafeLogging to 0.

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