On 30/10/12 09:43, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
On 29 October 2012 22:05, Alan Bell <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Alan,
I don't have any particular comment on the implementation of the
"privacy" as I haven't been involved in that - but there's a
technical tidbit I do have something to attach to:
SNIP This leads on to the thought that an evil genius could write
a lens/scope that is invisible, and presents no results, but
listens to the global search query change event and sends every
keystroke out to the internet, regardless of the privacy
preference setting. This is bad. I don't see any valid use-case
for a lens to set the visible property to false.
Firstly - if you can run a process under a given user, that user is
basically screwed for all intents and purposes. That is - at least
until Ubuntu implements a rigorous apparmor sandboxing of *all*
processes. Which is a huge task, that I don't know the state of (if it
even has a "state" :-)). IOW - hiding a lens in order to log global
search keystrokes is the *least* of your worries.
yes, I fully agree with that, I think the security/privacy concerns are
overblown in general, my main worry is that if you have a privacy
feature it should actually work.
Secondly - hiding a lens does certainly have very good practical use.
It's fx. being utilized in the apps lens to back the queries for the
Alt-F2 run dialog iirc. The unity-lens-applications process actually
houses two lenses, one hidden for alt-f2, another the normal apps
lens. This saves considerable amounts of memory because they can share
caches and indexes.
didn't know that, very interesting, I had no idea that the alt-f2
results were related to the apps lens. I still think it is confusing
having the shopping results on the home of the dash without having a
lens icon that they came from.
Alan.
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