--nextPart1798457.sKXelz3QDg Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_+oXoJleXpaeH4G1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Boundary-01=_+oXoJleXpaeH4G1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 22 February 2009, Randy Kramer wrote: > What is the security concern that prompts the suggestion to open the > property dialog in the first 10 minutes after creating it? Is it a > concern that some unauthorized person walks up to a PC, installs > something insecure and then proceeds to use it? I just figure that if we're worried about the scenario where someone is=20 tricking into opening a trojan .desktop file, the creation time is the only= =20 bit of meta-data on the file which can't be controlled by the attacker, and= =20 users who have had their own launchers would presumably have taken more tha= n=20 10 minutes to upgrade from 4.2. Just a thought is all. Regards, - Michael Pyne --Boundary-01=_+oXoJleXpaeH4G1 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On Sunday 22 February 2009, Randy Kramer wrote: