On Sunday 24 June 2012 18:47:26 j debert wrote:
On 06/24/2012 04:48 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2012-06-25 01:27, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:16:02 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Log user activity? What for? That's intrusive. A key logger in Linux?
https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist
Not a keylogger, an activity logger.
I don't have the things clear. Very little documentation on what this thing does and why it wants to install automatically by an (YOU) update.
It is interesting that such things keep being installed quietly, with no notice, no opt-out and by default, with little or no information about them. There's not even a justification for this; it's just done. The least they could do is tell us why they think we want this, sh--erm, stuff.
I think that perhaps the days of trusting Linux based systems and packages like OpenSuSE regarding privacy and security are going away. Safer not to trust them no matter how inconvenient it becomes.
Sanity time: I'm no big fan of zeitgeist, I think it is a silly way of working, but there are no privacy or security implications here. There is nothing stored in zeitgeist that isn't already stored in your home directory (which is also where the zeitgeist data gets stored) Your browser maintains a history, has done for several decades. Your office- type apps maintain history, which is how they can list stuff under "recent documents". Your chat programs keep logs. Every shell command you type gets stored in the shell's history, which is how things like arrow-up works You can set your browser to private browsing in recent versions, and you can set most chat clients to not log. I don't know about office programs, I've never seen an option to not store "recent document" type info. If you don't do this already, your home directory is already filled with information about what you do. If you do do this, it also won't get stored in zeitgeist. The whole point of zeitgeist is that you can tell what you were doing, say, last tuesday, and see the documents you were working on, and open them up again and pick up where you left off. I don't personally think that is terribly useful, but it is no more of a privacy concern than any other program on any other operating system that has ever come up with the idea that it could be a good idea to log stuff. Privacy and security concerns come when data gets uploaded to other machines. That is not happening here. This is just another goofy idea by gnome developers about how they think people should work Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org