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On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 04:54:46 +0000 (UTC) |
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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Kent Fredric posted on Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:38:40 +1200 as excerpted: |
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> > I see. I have a few gvim instances also reading/writing to that |
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> > terminal I didn't know about, interesting. |
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> Which brings up the privacy point. |
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Not really, because those instances wouldn't appear in logs. |
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> Anything getting this fancy and convoluted in terms of |
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> implementation is going to have to be very careful to narrow the |
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> scope of what it's looking at, lest it become the NSA in terms of |
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> dragnet. |
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It would be narrowed down to just the processes of the log; so, I don't |
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think anything special needs to be done. |
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> Even then, how many people would REALLY trust it, knowing |
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> the lengths to which it has to go to narrow down and focus in on JUST |
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> the info it needs? I don't think I'd trust it, for the same reason I |
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> don't trust the NSA doing similar things under "just trust us" |
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> pretenses. Would YOU? (Granted, our implementation would presumably |
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> be open, something the NSA most certainly is NOT, but still...) |
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You already put trust in us; a tiny feature difference that doesn't |
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really reveal anything (compared to eg. `emerge --info --verbose`), |
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isn't going to make a difference in that. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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