What happens if you type "porn" into Spotlight? Looks like it'll take more than renaming files in the future. 
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Spotlight and.... porn?
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I have my own laptop, so I'm not too worried, but this could be a major concern for some office types if their businesses upgrade over the next summer or something.
Benjamin said:...or passworded disk images
we dont know if that would work though, depends on if spotlight will be able to search those files and just be denied access to use of those files or will be need a password to seach the disk image?
Who names their porn - porn? I guess it could be there in the, uh... (metadata?).
Sub-catagory porn.
Not that I would know.
Sub-catagory porn.
Not that I would know.
stoid said:What happens if you type "porn" into Spotlight? Looks like it'll take more than renaming files in the future.
lol! I actually thought of that, I was imagining what exactly metadata could find
This is a big issue, it should be on the Mac Rumors front page!
I wonder if you can disable spotlight searching on a folder.
I personally set my own account's access privaleges on a folder to none if I want to "lock" that folder, and prevent it from being searched.
I wonder if this will work for Spotlight though, as it keeps it's own index of data.
I wonder if you can disable spotlight searching on a folder.
I personally set my own account's access privaleges on a folder to none if I want to "lock" that folder, and prevent it from being searched.
I wonder if this will work for Spotlight though, as it keeps it's own index of data.
I second that. Anything I want hidden, I encrypt with 128-bit AES disk images. Much simpler than FileVault.Benjamin said:...or passworded disk images
In the same vein, is there any way to edit the metadata attached to a file or is it specific to the application used to make it?
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PlaceofDis said:
thats a good question, but seeing that a disk image is a virtual disk and stored in a single file that is encoded i doubt that spotlight will search in it. however the current spotlight can't even pick up most of the files on all 4 drives i have so... they have a long way to go in the frist place. at least that has been my experience with the dev preview of tiger.
Benjamin said:
do you think if the disk image was selected to be searched, and was password protected that it could be searched? im wondering about the usefulness of spotlight and what shortcommings that it might have...
PlaceofDis said:
probably only if you have it mounted. but i have no idea. haven't run tests, only briefly toyed with tiger. Plus its a year away
solvs said:Who names their porn - porn? I guess it could be there in the, uh... (metadata?).
Sub-catagory porn.
Not that I would know.
You're right (I'd imagine.. )
I very much doubt 'porn' would be anywhere in the copyright info, so unless it's in the filename (unlikely), this search would turn up little.
However, if you're searching for images/movies of a certain size/date modified etc. it's very likely you could see porn popping up in the strangest of places!!
Tiger seems just made for porn. Spotlight can easily find vast collections, if it your own computer. If you share a computer, then Safari Private browsing is for you - no more clearing history and caches!
JohnsonMac said:Tiger seems just made for porn. Spotlight can easily find vast collections, if it your own computer. If you share a computer, then Safari Private browsing is for you - no more clearing history and caches!
..and Automator can automate the whole process, download it for you.. use that cool bulge'y CoreImage effect to er... enhance certain parts of the image... Ok, now maybe I'm getting carried away...
whooleytoo said:..and Automator can automate the whole process, download it for you.. use that cool bulge'y CoreImage effect to er... enhance certain parts of the image... Ok, now maybe I'm getting carried away...
now you're talking
I thought that was going to come up in Steve's presentation when he searched for Paris or photoshop stuff.