Privacy and passwords
Keith A. Milner
kamilner at superlative.org
Wed Mar 5 10:40:36 EST 2008
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 13:47:51 Alpár Jüttner wrote:
>
> And would make it more dangerous at the same time. As is were pointed in
> this thread, such a feature would only give a false feeling of security.
>
> Think of the simple situation when your kid accidentally delete your
> file. Maybe all of them. Will any kind of encryption protect your
> important data? A separated account will protect you against this kind
> of accidents with no effort. In fact, it protects _all_ your data with
> a single setup.
I agree.
Complaining that Gnucash doesn't have a simple password when you don't even
use account-level security is a bit like leaving your house front door wide
open and then complaining there's not enough police on patrol to prevent it
being burgled.
Cheers,
--
Keith A. Milner
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