Ah, now I understand this better. Thanks for clearing it up. On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 16:29 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 01:38 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote: > > Can you explain how the thumbnails are a privacy breach? > > It's explained in the link. Quote: > > I have some sensitive images on media. I am on the road > and I use a guest account on a third party’s computer to > access a file on that media. Thumbnails are generated and > left behind on the third party computer to be harvested! > I wonder how many users are aware of this potential > security risk, and if there is a way to prevent it. > > Of course, you should always think twice about plugging a > drive with sensitive files into a random machine. I could > load some sort of auto-media-sniffer onto my laptop and let > people use it. Trust is, as always, the first hurdle. > > But with thumbnails, even if you trust the person not to > be *explicitly* sniffing your data, it's happening anyway > by the thumbnailer. > > Frankly, if you have sensitive data on a portable drive, > you should really encrypt that drive. And then Nautilus > should never ever ever create thumbnails of files on an > encrypted volume and store them on another volume. Nor > should Beagle or Tracker create indexes of files on an > encrypted volume and store them elsewhere. et cetera. > > -- > Shaun > > > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 01:13 -0400, Yuval Levy wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am not sure if this is the right place to discuss these two issues, > > > but I feel they are important enough. As a tentative convert from > > > Windows (still dual booting, though with an increasingly share on the > > > Ubuntu/Gnome side of the divide) I have come across two potential deal > > > killers: > > > > > > time stamps: I know I can use cp -p, but is there a similar > > > functionality in Nautilus? and if there is, why isn't it default? > > > <http://panospace.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/i-want-my-time-stamps-back/> > > > > > > privacy: making thumbnails of every inserted media to a folder in the > > > user's home folder is a privacy breach. are those making the design > > > decisions aware of it? if so, has there been a discussion of the > > > benefits, alternatives and trade-offs? is there an option I am not aware > > > of to disable thumbnail caching for some or all media? > > > <http://panospace.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/i-want-my-privacy-back/> > > > > > > thanks > > > Yuv > > _______________________________________________ > > Usability mailing list > > Usability@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > Usability@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
_______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
