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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Security and usability
From:       Sander Devrieze <s.devrieze () pandora ! be>
Date:       2003-08-22 23:52:28
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Op maandag 18 augustus 2003 13:38, schreef Roland Seuhs:
> Am Montag, 18. August 2003 12:54 schrieb David Hugh-Jones:
> > I agree very much with your general point about usability and security,
> > and I also do web programming and use cookies, but they _can_ be
> > dangerous: here's one result of a quick google. Nobody got harmed but
> > clearly there was the potential for serious harm.
> >
> > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q1/0079.html
>
> Well that's basically a bug in the site, but not a flaw in Cookies as a
> technology.

So Konqueror should make users aware that this can hapen and let them choose 
by themself to accept or not. We haven't the right to decide about the users 
privicy in his place.

IMO KDE should have a mission statement to it's users (which should include 
things like this) and eventually too one for contributors to KDE.

<snip>

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