Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

[Yuval Levy <gnome08 sfina com>]

Caleb Marcus wrote:
> So? Only root can do that... I don't see the problem.

the kind of answer that attracts sympathy and new users.


> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:49 -0600, Kevin D. Carlson wrote:
> > I would assume they're referring to the fact that you can (with root
> > access) look at any image that exists in any folder that the user has
> > loaded in Nautilus. Even if they didn't look at it, it's still there.

No, it is not only with root access. It is with user access. Permission 
is irrelevant to the problem. Most of these removable media come 
straight out of digital cameras that use FAT.

The problem in the first place is the creation of thumbnails in any 
other place than the same folder (with the same permissions, if 
applicable) as the originals.

What happens if ten users access the same images from a network drive? 
Just another consequence...

The right design is to keep the thumbs on the same media where the 
originals are (and if applicable with same permissions as far as 
user/root access is concerned).

And another right design decision would be that drag and drop behaves 
like cp -p.

Yuv




> > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 01:38 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote:
> > > Can you explain how the thumbnails are a privacy breach?
> > > 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
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