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
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