2014-02-21 20:30 GMT-03:00 Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org>: > On Thursday, February 20, 2014 08:58:48 GEO wrote: >> Maybe a strange idea, but it would resolve the privacy problem: Baloo could >> optionally encrypt all the attributes using a user defined password, meaning >> baloo stores encrypted strings as file attributes. I have no experience >> with file attributes, but I suppose the performance of search queries would >> suck, because of the decryption. > > Use an encrypted filesystem. :)
That's a solution for a different problem. The problem in discussion is when you copy a file (perhaps to an unencrypted pendrive) unaware that you're also copying xattrs/metadata. Encrypting your main filesystem doesn't help with that. -- Nicolás