Re: [Usability] time stamps and privacy

[Karsten Bräckelmann <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 23:35 -0400, Yuval Levy wrote:
> Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:

> > And it *is* only you or root who can access these thumbnails. Otherwise,
> > your $HOME's permissions are either borked or set explicitly and
> > knowingly.
> 
> you seem to be confusing user ( = person sitting in front of the PC) 
> and account ( = abstract concept that most mainstream PC users don't 
> care about).

No, I am not confusing them.

> It is any *person* who has access to the account that can access the 
> thumbnails in $HOME.

An account is a means of identification and authentication of the user.

If you are using a single account for multiple persons, please stop
talking about security and privacy. You didn't get the entire concept.

Example: If you are freely sharing the code to a safe, you CAN NOT
expect the contents to be not accessible by those you told the code.


I am not going to discuss the rest of your post. It's pointless.

  guenther


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