> Changing the permissions on a home directory is 'easy', but it's a
> limiting methodology choice.
>
> First, are you really trying to hide file's contents, or their names
> too?

everything.

and i think 700 for /root should be default. If something doesn't need to
be world accessible, it shouldn't.
Just my opinion about general system security.

It's similar to deamons that runs on NetBSD by default - almost nothing.
And it's good so you run those which YOU decide should run, instead of
thinking what to stop to prevent security holes - like in most linux
distributions.

similar should be with all permisions in default install.