Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm
On 2021-02-09 22:12:31 +0100, Ansgar wrote:
> "Steinar H. Gunderson" writes:
> > On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 10:16:29PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> >> Furthermore, any mechanism they use to configure one of them
> >> (e.g. for privacy or performance reasons) will not control the other,
> >> and again they may well be unaware of the existence of the other one.
> >
> > I'm not sure what privacy reasons you're referring to? I'm not aware that
> > neither mlocate/plocate nor e.g. tracker will leak data across users.
>
> If you have an encrypted /home (or /home/<login>), but unencrypted
> /var/lib/plocate, you leak information about the encrypted files.
This would be the user's fault. I can also see /home/<login> "leaks"
in log files. And mail "leaks" under /var/mail. So, in short, /var
should be encrypted.
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