Meta Tracker - A Desktop Search Tool [LSARC/2008/375 FastTrack timeout 06/25/2008]

[Jerry Tan]

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>> * Where does it store the, potentially highly sensitive, information ?
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> I believe MetaTracker allows the user to configure what directories will
> be searched, so users can specify that sensitive information in certain
> file locations not be tracked.  However, I don't think it uses any
> heuristics to avoid tracking sensitive information.
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> It would be interesting to find out if MetaTracker does anything special
> to avoid tracking known files that contain sensitive information.  It
> would probably be bad, for example, if it put your .Xauthority cookie or
> gnome-keyring data files into a database.
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> Brian
Yes, Brian,
Tracker allows user to choose which directories to index.
And by default, tracker will ignore any files or directory begin with ".".