Re: Any better ideas for file sharing?

Yaron Y. goland wrote:
> freaked me out because that file is one stop shopping for stealing 
> everything we own

Would MD's built-in encryption help? I'm not saying it would be 
adequate. I haven't used it. I'm just asking why that's not a sufficient 
solution for you. The obvious problem is that there's no option to force 
a database close after a certain amount of inactivity. (I'm assuming 
that your concern is that she carries her laptop with her and thus it's 
at high risk of loss or theft. This isn't always a correct assumption 
these days, since laptops are now often bought for home use only.)

If I were creating a file with restricted info, I would take a more 
primitive approach. Most importantly, I would only copy data I deemed 
safe, rather than copying everything and then deleting what I had 
identified as unsafe.

The MD database is a plain text file. The beginning of each line is a 
tag identifying the data on the line, for example curr, csnap, acct, 
txn, reminder, olinfo -- in fact, except for a header line, those are 
the only tags I see in mine. Each line has many parameters, so you would 
have to identify which parameters are safe as well as which lines.

My guess would be that txn lines are safe, olinfo certainly not, and 
that acct is the tag needing the most analysis of parameters. curr is 
used for investment accounts as well as currencies, distinguished by the 
type parameter. csnap appears to be investment transactions but might be 
currencies conversions also. (I only use one currency, so I'm not able 
to fully evaluate the ramifications of this multiple use.)

At a quick glance, I believe that the entire contents of csnap and txn 
lines are safe. acct and probably curr would need analysis, with some 
parameters safe and others not. olinfo is almost certainly entirely 
unsafe. Parts of reminder are probably safe, but you may not have any 
need to copy those.

The analysis done, I would arrange to extract the safe lines and 
parameters. I don't know if any text editor could do this, but it 
wouldn't take a much fancier tool.

Edward
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