Re: [Tracker] Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 05/05/14 10:28, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
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> Hi Vishesh,
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> It's a long time item on the wishlist to have more fine grained access
> control on Tracker's metadata (which applications are permitted to
> access which data). This is (just) an idea on how to implement it.
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> The subject is a reference to a movie.

I have to say, I am a bit averse to this sort of thing, but mainly 
because I worry about performance.

However, you can't escape requirements by some to have some level of 
protection over their data in the database when it's being shared 
/accessed by others putting their own content in there too.

For a while, using multiple DBs was an idea but we've been down that 
path and it's ugly and complex at times.

Using a hash or secure method is certainly a nice alternative (if it 
works). My immediate thoughts are about how queries would actually work 
and what kind of performance hit this would have.

With increasing processing power, perhaps this is less of an issue?

Philip, while this is all great hot air we're producing here, is there 
an actual requirement for this from someone for something real? :)

Thanks,

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Martyn

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