Is Beagle a Good Thing?
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Tue Dec 4 23:00:13 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 13:44 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
>
> One issue with all this pre-compiled database is it makes things easy
> for someone else to trace your actions. Maybe I am paranoid but I found
> that even "locate" can reveal to much information that I don't want
> easily found.
>
>
> But this is my preference.
I can see your point for system-wide indexes that index user files as
well (such as locate). Beagle indexes are created per userid, so I
don't think they can look in other users' /home, and others can't look
at your indexes.
>
> I want to start encrypting everything on the laptop and many files on
> the desktop.
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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