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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Outstanding critical issue for KDE 2.2
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-02 3:23:03
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#if George Staikos
> On Wednesday 01 August 2001 17:42, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:32:23PM -0700, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > So disable something potentially useful, for the 5% or whatever of people
> > > using KDE in multiuser environments?  This isn't a "security" problem for
> > > a single-user desktop.
> > >
> > > OK, I made up that number.  But the relative number of multiuser vs
> > > singleuser KDE installs should determine what case we optimize for.
> >
> > Even on multi-user systems, if the file is mode 600 it should not be a
> > problem anyway.
> 
>   On the internet, it should not be a problem transmitting it unencrypted 
> because only responsible "root" users should have direct access to these 
> channels, right?   Writing it to disk unencrypted is plain not good enough.  
> If it's going to disk, it must be encrypted with a user's password which is 
> not written to disk.

Why ?

Rik

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