Ubuntu 10.10 (Yes, I know. I should upgrade to 12.04, but it's a lot of work transferring everything, and something important usually gets overlooked.)
I'm not some government scientist or best-selling author, but like most people I store personal letters, family photographs and other files on my hard drive that I wouldn't necessarily want a burglar or other unauthorised person to access, so I occasionally use encryption.
The trouble is that practically every application in Ubuntu and Open Office keeps a record of my most recently accessed files.
Encryption is useful, but secrecy is important too. If people don't know a file exists, they don't know to look for it, but these "history" files point straight to them.
When I used Windows (sorry about the language ) most applications could be instructed not to maintain a history file, but this doesn't seem to be the case in most Ubuntu applications or in Open Office.
Is there some way round this problem, short of creating and and then deleting a dozen "dummy" files to cover my tracks any time I've accessed an encrypted file?
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