Default permissions

Christoph Bier wrote:
> Ivan Krstic schrieb am 21.10.2005 13:18:
>>Programs that deal with private data (e.g. mail) are usually good about
>>using proper permissions. On a desktop system, other people who have
>>accounts are usually trusted individuals, [...]
> 
> Sure?? I really don't think so! No.

I carefully qualified that sentence with 'usually'. It's possible that
you hand out accounts on your desktop to whoever wants one, but it's
certainly not common behavior, nor one deserving of a change in Ubuntu's
defaults.

Colin's idea of a /home/$USER/private sounds optimal, though I suspect
the entire data security question will have to be revisited as soon as
we begin talking about folder and drive encryption -- which Martin
already discussed on the list some time ago, but the technologies
discussed weren't a good fit for Ubuntu at the time.

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