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>You can often only drag 'n drop from ~/Downloads/ Drag and drop could be made to always work since it's being done by a user. Request this feature from your o
by charcircuit 2y ago
>You can often only drag 'n drop from ~/Downloads/
Drag and drop could be made to always work since it's being done by a user. Request this feature from your operating system's developer.
- sirspamalot108 2y ago[flagged]
- bluGill 2y agoThen I have to ask for printing to always work. Then something else that I haven't even thought of yet. Security is hard because there are so many details that must be right or you compromise useability/usefulness.
- tsimionescu 2y agoIs it? There is such a thung as GUI automation. It's not a very popular exploit vector because it is visible, and because there are simpler non-GUI exploit vectors available. But nothing fundamentally stops an attacker process from pretending it's accessibility software and taking control of the mouse to do a drag-n-drop.
- charcircuit 2y agoGUI automation is typically locked down heavily and would not be something you would give to random applications.
- fc417fc802 2y ago> pretending it's accessibility software That should be a privileged status. If you manage to trick the user into installing malicious software followed by granting it elevated privileges then you likely didn't need such a roundabout method in the first place.