[openbeos] Re: Add-ons/Module problems/ideas??
- From: Abraham Egnor <aegnor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:13:49 -0400 (EDT)
> 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
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