Spyware and logging

[FlameReaper]

*cough* dmesg. *cough*

Also.

cat /var/log/syslog

Oh no!

[yetiman64]

By putting a * in the blacklist path in Activity Journal can give an otherwise useful feature a good dose of permanent amnesia.

If anyone is worried about it see --here-- and look under the section titled,

Is Dash displaying your hidden / private files or your porn?

The information here also shows how to clear the history that is already recorded.

I tested this out with Zeitgeist and it didn't record any files opened anywhere and the Activity Journal was cleared.

The only thing to ever show up in Dash after using this was the contents of the Downloads folder (not a history of opened files though).

this thread is absurd

Agreed, Total non issue imo.

[Retlol]

This thread is funny.

Omg my computer stores my information. Spyware !!!!!

I'm simplifying, but still.

[yetiman64]

This thread is funny.

Omg my computer stores my information. Spyware !!!!!

I'm simplifying, but still.

ROTFL ! So well put.

[madmax75]

Zeitgeist is integrated and functioning, were is this control?

Like the article said, the Zeitgeist Global Privacy is "currently in development".

What I've heard, you can already blacklist folders and files through the Activity Journal and clear out the recently used files list.

Still, I fail to see where exactly is the problem with Zeitgeist. I find it to be a useful feature for the user.

[OM NOM NOM]

Like the article said, the Zeitgeist Global Privacy is "currently in development".

What I've heard, you can already blacklist folders and files through the Activity Journal and clear out the recently used files list.

Still, I fail to see where exactly is the problem with Zeitgeist. I find it to be a useful feature for the user.

The problem is this: If there is a program logging activities and someone doesnt know about it or have the right to refuse it or monior it in some way that individual could find themselves in danger.

Here's an example: User lives in a country that doesnt enjoy freedom of speech. User is not technically savvy but is able to get a computer with Ubuntu on it. User communictes to other users through IM sensitive information. Even though the users' conversation isn't logged the information is there that they TALKED to someone who could be on a gov't "watch list". In many countries that's enough "evidence" for a firing squad. all too convenient to find said activity in one log.

The problem isn't with Zeitgeist itself, it's the fact that there is extremely limited information about it out there and users were not given the option to control it. Hell I didn't even know about it until I stumbled across a forum post recently and I've been running Ubuntu for years. And I moved over from windows because I couldn't stand the policy of WGA and having to ask permission to change components on my computer.

[OM NOM NOM]

And as a follow-up: What other commercial OSes log the stuff Zeitgiest does by default in the backgroud? I'm not being sarcastic I literally have not heard of anything like it in Windows, Mac or any other OS before.