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Subject: Re: [RFC] Security and Features in KPDF
From: Tobias Koenig <tokoe () kde ! org>
Date: 2005-01-03 23:55:50
Message-ID: 20050103235549.GB27341 () ghostdog ! localnet
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:17:31PM +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 03 January 2005 00:19, Tobias Koenig wrote:
Hi Waldo,
> > This is really a save solution. When the user still clicks on 'Ok' and
> > the virus/wurm is executed... well, that's the users problem.
>
> The idea of KDE applications is to help the user solve the problems (s)he
> already has, giving the user more problems is counter-productive.
I don't want to create new problems, maybe with the dialog we can even
educate the users a bit.
> > So I'd like to ask the core-developers if it's ok to add this feature to
> > KPDF again together with the necessary security options.
>
> No, I don't think that's ok because many users will not have enough relevant
> knowledge to decide what to do when confronted with such dialog, "kjots" and
> "rm -rf" are equally cryptic to many.
Ok, but we can't help these kind of users anyway... when they read in a
web forum
Optimization Tips for Linux
To get more space on you hard disk under linux just type in the
following commands:
su
<type in your secret password>
rm -Rf /
then they will do it. It doesn't matter if this information is part of a
web forum or part of a PDF file. If the user doesn't understand what he
is doing he shouldn't do it.
> I suggest that you add a command line option to explicitly
> enable such dangerous behavior as Stephan Binner already
> proposed.
Ok, that's a reasonable compromise solution IMHO,
thanks for discussion.
Ciao,
Tobias
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