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Metadata in Vista Could Be Too Helpful
linumax writes "Windows Vista will improve search functionality on a PC by letting users tag files with metadata, but those tags could cause unwanted and embarrassing information disclosure, Gartner analysts have warned. Search and organization capabilities are among the primary features of Windows Vista, the successor to Windows XP due out late in 2006. While building those features, Microsoft is not paying enough attention to managing the descriptive information, or metadata, that users can add to files to make it easier to find and organize data on a PC, according to Gartner. 'This opens up the possibility of the inadvertent disclosure of this metadata to other users inside and outside of your organization,' Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald wrote in a research note published on Thursday."
Windows Vista will improve search functionality on a PC by letting users tag files with metadata, but those tags could cause unwanted and embarrassing information disclosure, Gartner analysts have warned.
Ha-ha! You're using Windows!
The new version of Windows will be insecure???
Say it ain't so.....
No... say it ain't so...
:)
Surely Microsoft aren't adding a feature to Windows without giving thorough consideration as to how the feature will work in a multi user, internet connected, environment ?
After all they've show time and time again how much they cae about these things
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
My colleague at my former job once sent our boss a report in a file named 'for_dickhead_2003_11'. He changed the file name before attaching it to the email. Unfortunately, a self-reference in the file contents remained, showing the unfortunately chosen first name. Fortunately, our boss just politely reminded him to pick more neutral names, just in case.
...if fellow co-workers learn I heart Fabio from the tags in my massive library of rectal gaping porn.
sounds like he's worried about people finding his porn collection when they search for seemingly unrelated things(scat music, majestic horse paintings, old lady jokes, kiddie books and toys, etc). maybe someone should just tell him not to tag that stuff
if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
...te?
It's all under control. Just train your users to manage their own metadata.
Catalogation
In the interestation of securitization, the catalogation of the nation's datation should not be left to the ineptitudination of incompetentation corporatizations with a historicalization of not giving full thoughtfulination to securitization.
You need a meta-metadata tag to set your metadata as "private". And in case your g/f gets wise and enables searching for "private" tagged metadata, you need a meta-meta-metadata tag to mark things "private for reals". If she gets wise to THAT, you just need a meta-meta-meta-metadata tag labelled "k biotch, i'm busted, just don't delete mah tubgirl pr0n".
Homer: From now on, there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Windows Vista way.
Bart: Isn't that just the wrong way?
Homer: Yeah, but faster!
Developers: We can use your help.
I'm shocked, shocked to see Microsoft prioritizing features over security.
</Claude Rains>
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
LOL, did Ballmer piss in your bed this morning? :-)
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Fo' shizzle!
Yeah, Google Desktop is great. First thing the default installation did was to display my porn pics in the sidebar. I wonder if it does the same with SO's account...