Jeff Waugh wrote:
<quote who="Del">
Someone asked me today, as they often ask me about things Linux, if I had
a Linux replacement for their favourite "journal" app that they run on
their (windows) PC. I asked what that journal app did, and was told:
"You can set it to track when you open files of various types [in other
applications] and how long they are open for.". Further quizzing revealed
that you can set it to record when those files were opened, saved, closed,
and when and where any saved and backup copies were stored.
I mentioned the security impacts of such an application, or even the fact
that such an application was possible, and left it at that.
Look around for Zeitgeist. :-)
Good point, but quite different. It's a D-BUS based data logger which apps can choose to
publish their information to. In a way it's not unlike syslog.
So my OpenOffice.org calc program can choose to tell zeitgeist "Del opened file X on his
system". zeitgeist doesn't interrupt OpenOffice.org calc's system calls to find out what files
are being opened (and potentially dumping copies of those files to an IRC channel to be picked
up by a botnet operating out of frangipangiland) without OpenOffice.org knowing about it.
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Del
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