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Shareable How Private are Home Directories? Carlos Maltzahn UC Santa Cruz 27 February 2008 Problem People are overwhelmed by their data collection. Difficult to manage even with keyword search Scarce metadata (e.g. few relationships

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How Private are Home Directories?

Carlos Maltzahn UC Santa Cruz

27 February 2008

Shareable

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People are overwhelmed by their data collection. Difficult to manage even with keyword search

  • Scarce metadata (e.g. few relationships between files)
  • Small sets of relevant files (high demand for accuracy)

So what?

  • Mounting data loss
  • Digital Age becomes a Dark Age

Problem

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Idea: Maximize sharing of data management effort Web has many successful examples:

File systems have enough shareable files to make collaborative data management feasible.

Shareability Hypothesis

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shareable file:

  • should be managed across file systems and/or

users.

  • not necessarily managed that way, currently.

How to measure:

  • compare home directories of a user group
  • over-estimate due to common system files
  • under-estimate due to sharing outside the group

Approach

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shareable file:

  • should be managed across file systems and/or

users.

  • not necessarily managed that way, currently.

How to measure:

  • compare home directories of a user group
  • over-estimate due to common system files
  • under-estimate due to sharing outside the group

Approach

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shareable file:

  • should be managed across file systems and/or

users.

  • not necessarily managed that way, currently.

How to measure:

  • subjective categorization by user survey
  • focus on files user cares about
  • measurement independent of sample size

Approach

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local: file never leaves this computer (not shareable)

  • user wants to manage file
  • not suitable for sharing among computers or users

user: file is private (shareable)

  • suitable for sharing among computers of same user

group: file is restricted to group (shareable) public: file is public (shareable)

  • downloaded or published files

Categories

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Results:

73% of surveyed & relevant files are shareable!

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21

User (sort by u+g+p) Fraction

public group user local

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Results:

0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Fraction of users Shareability user+group+public group+public public

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Results:

75% of users with ≥ 50% shareability

0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Fraction of users Shareability user+group+public group+public public

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Results:

75% of users with ≥ 50% shareability 50% of users with ≥ 50% shareability across users

0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Fraction of users Shareability user+group+public group+public public

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Results:

75% of users with ≥ 50% shareability 50% of users with ≥ 50% shareability across users 10% of users with ≥ 50% of files are public

0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Fraction of users Shareability user+group+public group+public public

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For more information...

Ongoing survey:

  • www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/Survey/

See me at my poster! Thank you!

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Results:

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Results: