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Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)Posted Oct 28, 2010 15:02 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica) by callegar Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)
> Among many people I know the following is common practice: I need to write a short document or to check the email and I do not have a laptop, so I ask a friend to borrow his laptop for 10 minutes. They give the laptop to me and they do not set up a new user account for this.
Okay, I'm with you up to here...
> Typically they just copy out one dir of sensitive data to a USB pen, to make sure that I do not have access to passwords, bank data, etc.
Say what? Your friends move data off their machines to a USB pen every time before lending it to you for 10 minutes? I have never heard of anyone doing that -- it sounds like a rather serious pain in the ass. If you're going to be paranoid like that, wouldn't it be easier to just make a new user account instead?
> In this condition I get a machine where they think there is no sensitive data, but in fact there is in the indexer.
Yeah...well...I just let people borrow my machine with the sensitive data still on it and trust that nobody is going to actually go searching through my stuff to find private data, when they were just borrowing my laptop to check their email...and I don't think I'm alone there.
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