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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Input to an Active window
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-03-11 17:04:06
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On Monday 11 March 2002 17:32, Chris Howells wrote:
> Does dcop have any kind of security? 
User-based. You can't run a dcop script that touches another user's processes
(or the ones of any user on another machine) - except when permission (ICE auth)
has been granted.

> What's to stop some malicious scrip use 
> dcop to do undesirable things to users applications like disabling the KWord 
> ui, or making kicker continually restart?
Not more than you can stop a malicious script that does "rm -rf $HOME". 
No need to use DCOP for that.

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