[ciphershed] Re: Signed System Driver
- From: Stephen R Guglielmo <srguglielmo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:07:02 -0400
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Alain Forget <aforget@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, something like that. But boy, even short ones like that are painful to
> read. So maybe in addition to whatever license we provide, I would recommend
> that at the top (or somewhere very obvious and prominent), we could have some
> kind plain English statement, such as:
>
> "While we, [the developers of CipherShed || CipherShed LLP], do our best to
> ensure our software is free of bugs and malicious code, no one can make such
> a guarantee with absolute certainty. While we have confidence in our
> software, be aware that you use this software at your own risk."
>
> While I really hate "use at your own risk" statements (because damn, they can
> be really scary to an end-user), I definitely think we need to have some kind
> of clear, simple, short, plain English statement saying something like
> that...because no one reads EULAs, and I hope we can do better to help users
> understand the possible risks (while appropriately covering our own asses).
>
> Alain
If I recall correctly (I may be wrong...), doesn't the TrueCrypt
software have a prompt that informs the user about that stuff at the
end of the installer? I don't remember the wording or anything, but I
do remember something popping up.
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