a security hole waiting to happen?
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| gus3 Jul 15, 2009 10:18 PM EDT |
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." |
| azerthoth Jul 15, 2009 10:53 PM EDT |
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. |
| gus3 Jul 15, 2009 10:59 PM EDT |
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.) |
| Sander_Marechal Jul 16, 2009 2:58 AM EDT |
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! |
| tracyanne Jul 16, 2009 5:19 AM EDT |
Quoting:They're going to have to pry my hierarchical filesystem from my cold, dead hands! and mine. |
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