Is Beagle a Good Thing?

[Matthew Saltzman]

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

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