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Originally Posted by JackBeSlow View Post
Well solutions like the one above seem like a kludge to me. What happens when you have installed another photo app that doesn't care about the file names? The best way to handle this is to access the device as a different user, but that means each user is going to need their own settings folders etc. The "much wider problem of 'proper' data security" needs to be solved before this can be handle in any reasonable way. At least in my opinion.

However how about locking the person you are loaning the phone to out of certain applications? This could be done with a chown that can be reversed with the entering of a password. Not elegant by any means but...
One thing to remember is that you are lending this device to a friend or a person whom you already KNOW. And extremely securing stuff might not be needed! But if you loose the device to anyone else, thats a different story. For such cases, you don't want the other guy to see ANY of your data. So, in that case, you should try locking him out.

Btw, I am interested to know about any photo viewer app that tries to open/read a .XYZ extension file? Any video app that tries to open/read a .789 extension and so on? I don't know of any. Please share if there any apps out there that do it. That would be interesting.

If there really are apps that do the above, I think, I might have another solution for that too. But for now, let's keep this as simple as possible!!
 

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