Comment 3 for bug 460490

It seems like there is something of a consensus behind this. So why hasn't
it been changed to date?

2009/10/26 Calder Coalson <email address hidden>

> Sorry, didn't mean to make it private...
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> 2009/10/26 Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden>
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>> The current behavior is a deliberate and publicly-known design choice,
>> so this bug report does not need to be private.
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>> I agree with you that it is a poor design choice, and private-by-default
>> would be better.
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>> Discussions elsewhere:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1210175
>> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6106/
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecureHome
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/secure-home
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>> ** Visibility changed to: Public
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>> Everyone has read access to user's home directories by default
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460490
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>> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: New
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>> Bug description:
>> Mac OS X takes the proper approach of giving each user a "Public" folder
>> that is read-only to everyone, and restricting access to all other folders.
>> As it stands in Ubuntu, documents, pictures, movies, even saved passwords,
>> etc... are accessible to everyone with an account on the same computer.
>> Security by default and vulnerability by choice is a much better approach.
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