[Bug 965832] Re: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection

2012-11-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Besides being security theater, "someone might change my Privacy settings to make stuff show up in the Dash" doesn't make sense as a threat worth protecting against individually. If an untrustworthy person has access to your computer for long enough to change your Privacy settings, there are hundre

[Bug 965832] Re: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection

2012-11-11 Thread Marc Deslauriers
This is running under the user's session. Adding any authentication there would be security theater since it would be trivial to bypass. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965832 Title: P

[Bug 965832] Re: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection

2012-11-11 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: activity-log-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965832

Re: [Bug 965832] Re: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection

2012-04-11 Thread Nick
OK, but this is assuming they know their way around the terminal commands. Like you say, someone with a good knowledge of Linux can find things out pretty quickly, but for the average user, a password system I'd think would be a good deterrant. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:32, Siegfried Gevatter wr

[Bug 965832] Re: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection

2012-04-10 Thread Siegfried Gevatter
I don't really see the point in this. If they want to know what you're doing, and they have access to their session, there's plenty of ways to get even more information (including keyloggers and all sorts of evil stuff). Having a password in the Settings dialog isn't going to help much (also, even

Re: [Bug 965832] Re: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection

2012-04-05 Thread Nick
OK Thanks Manish. I knew it was on a per user basis. But at least the events not logged during that time are not revealed. The other risk however is if someone turns off the logging without the user knowing then all events since that point in time are now logged from that moment forwards. Not ever

[Bug 965832] Re: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection

2012-04-02 Thread मनीष सिन्हा
When you remove the blacklist, then for that specific time when the blacklist was set, the events are not logged and the person cannot know what was done in that time period. BTW all these logging and blacklisting is per user. It isn't system wide. -- You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 965832] Re: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection

2012-04-01 Thread Nick
Is Zeitgeist the correct application for this bug to be logged under or should it be 'Activity Log Manager'? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/965832 Title: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System

[Bug 965832] Re: Privacy (Zeitgeist) in System Settings needs password protection

2012-03-26 Thread Nick
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