Re: Google Desktop for Linux Released

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:31:48AM -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:

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> How good/bad is Google desktop at this? Is it easy to only have it
> index certain directories? Also, I'm curious if such an app phones home
> or otherwise fiddles with bits not its own. I still haven't got a good
> method for running closed-source binaries such that I can finely control
> the network controls on a per-app (vs. a per-network) basis.

systrace <http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/> can help. You
can limit socket related calls to specific addresses, and in
interactive mode it will prompt you for calls that don't already have
a policy set.

I used to always use it on OpenBSD to run apps that were only
available as binary, and occasionally used it to run pieces of
malware.

-- Jason
Received on Sun Jul 1 07:51:34 2007