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Frank Peters posted on Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:36:57 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> It wouldn't have to scan your local drives. It would only have to scan |
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> the very few directories named "MY DOCUMENTS" and "MY VIDEOS" and "MY |
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> EMAIL" which have conveniently been established by the omnipotent and |
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> omniscient desktop environment. Within these universal and standardized |
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> storage areas can be found everything that snooping software would need |
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> to find. |
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Hmm... Some people (me) don't use those standardized locations. I have |
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a dedicated media partition -- large, still on spinning rust when most of |
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the system in terms of filenames (but not size) is on SSD, and where it's |
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mounted isn't standard and is unlikely to /be/ standard, simply because I |
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have my own rather nonconformist ideas of where I want stuff located and |
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how it should be organized. |
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OTOH, consider ~/.thumbnails/. Somebody already mentioned that google |
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case and the hashes they apparently scan for. ~/.thumbnails will |
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normally have thumbnails for anything in the system visited by normal |
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graphics programs, including both still images and video, and I think pdf |
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too unless that's always generated dynamically as is the case with txt |
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files, via various video-thumbnail addons. Those thumbnails are all |
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going to be standardized to one of a few standard sizes, and can either |
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be used effectively as (large) hashes directly, or smaller hashes of them |
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could be generated... |
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Tho some images programs (gwenview) have an option to wipe the thumbnails |
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dir when they're shutdown, but given the time creating those thumbnails |
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on any reasonably large collection takes, most people aren't going to |
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want to enable wiping... |
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Meanwhile, one of the things that has come out is that the NSA |
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effectively already considers anyone running a Linux desktop a radical, |
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likely on their watch-list already, just as is anyone running TOR, or |
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even simply visiting the TOR site or an article linking to them. |
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I guess I must be on their list several times over, what with the sigs I |
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use, etc, the security/privacy-related articles I read, the OS I run, and |
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the various lists I participate on... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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