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Ubuntu disables app logging for privacy

posted onMarch 13, 2012
by l33tdawg

Internet freedom actiivist group the Electronic Frontier Foundation has welcomed a move allowing users to delete log activity for GNOME applications in the latest update to the Ubuntu operating system.

The new feature, available in the current beta of Ubuntu 12.04, will allow users to disable activity logging for some Linux applications, potentially preventing thieves with physical access to a computer from pilfering user files.

It would also allow users to disabe activity logging for specific applications, or all compatible apps together. "Keep in mind that these settings only apply to the GNOME activity log. Many other parts of your operating system log things by default and that logging needs to be disabled separately, if it is possible at all," EFF web developer Micah Lee wrote in a blog post detailing the move.

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