GNOME's Zeitgeist Engine Has Its First Release

Perhaps it doesn't capture keystrokes, but what differentiates this from a keylogger?

Seriously, there's a reason I tell my browser to flush the cache and wipe the history when I close it. The summary makes Zeitgeist sound like "user-friendly malware."

nag dab it, you know I hate it when you make sense.

On the face of it, it does sound handy, yet when you look at it through security minded eyes ... this thing is a hackers wet dream. Here is a handy tool for telling him the data you work on and think is important, all in a handy database. Maybe my paranoia is kicking in, then again maybe not.

Sign up for the semi-weekly SANS NewsBites and @Risk newsletters. You'll find that your paranoia is not without cause.

(It also helps that I worked for an infosec firm for 3-1/2 years.)

The most ridiculous thing is that Zeitgeist is being developed as an alternative to a file browser, because most people would not "understand files and folders". Nonsense I say, no matter how many usability studies you have to prove it. I have yet to meet a single computer illiterate person that didn't understand files and folders 5 minutes after showing them how it works. They're going to have to pry my hierarchical filesystem from my cold, dead hands!

Quoting:They're going to have to pry my hierarchical filesystem from my cold, dead hands!

and mine.