Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy



On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 03:57 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> The fact, that in this assumption an UNTRUSTED system is being used is
> the privacy breach. The admin must be trusted. And a sensitive way to
> deal with ALL these issues and more, seriously not limited to
> thumbnails, is to entirely re-create the "guest" account blank, from
> scratch, when the user leaves.

Interestingly, Fedora Core 9 has this.  Very clever idea and I hope to
see more distros use it by default.

Obviously, unless you trust the admin, the guest account may be running
a keystroke logger, but if you can't trust the admin...

Ross
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