On Sunday, 24 June 2012 22:01 Anders Johansson wrote:
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:
"Sanity time" is when people *STOP* worrying about intrusive software. Linux is *SUPPOSED* to be transparent and allow us to see what it and the apps it uses are doing. By getting pompous about it, you just tend to turn people off from Linux use that much more than they already are (mostly for no apparent *decent* reasons, but still...). <snip>
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.
Oh? Does it then 'log' a password that was used somewhere, say on an unimportant thing but that requires a password none-the-less? If so, now there's a logged password, be it unimportant to the *USER* but still should be kept from anyone *but* the user. -- Powered by Slackware Linux 13.37 07:18:38 up 1 day, 20:30, 2 users, load average: 0.67, 0.74, 0.77 All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke Registered Linux user #214117 at http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org