-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-06-25 05:01, Anders Johansson wrote:
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.
This is a more reasonable explanation than what their own documentation on the sites say, thanks. However, the little I found says that it also keeps tracks of conversations - it is on the excerpt I copied on a previous post: +++················· Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users's activities and events (files opened, websites visites, conversations held with other people, etc.) and makes relevant information available to other applications. It is able to establish relationships between items based on similarity and usage patterns. ·················++-
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
Well, it concentrates information that can be queried from a service that is running, and thus, perhaps breakable remotely. And I was not asked prior to installing it, I just happened to read the description and it raised a warning flag. That's my concern. It is suspicious. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/n16AACgkQIvFNjefEBxpQXQCfa53vvdIqYNrR55FpfeONBuCu wX4AoK3zCI845+KbSTWi91WxvFKjoL3+ =pmVr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org