FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Add-ons/Module problems/ideas??

[Abraham Egnor <aegnor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Sometime ago a discussion about the fact that Deskbar would auto-load any 
> replicants it would found without the user asking it to or not resulted in 
> Marco Nelissen implementing the Deskbar Security patch for OpenTracker.
> 
> The reason I say that is to show that if we know about some security risk 
> like that we must do something and fix it and not introduce another one 
> "it could cause the same problem without this feature".
> 
> Anyway, this is just my humble opinion. I know I will not be implementing 
> something like that in OpenBeOS and I will be the firs one to disable it 
> in my builds if it is implemented. Others my think different and I am fine 
> with that.

Okay, that's reasonable.  Personally, I'd really like this feature; the
security risk doesn't bother me, as I treat code running on my local
machine as "inside" security anyway.

Abe