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Does it actually matter? For the average desktop, everything of monetary value will be under the main user account. Which is generally also the account used to
by flogic 12y ago
Does it actually matter? For the average desktop, everything of monetary value will be under the main user account. Which is generally also the account used to touch the internet.
- ecma 12y agoI think it does matter. Defence is relevant at almost every level of software. If a window manager can make smart design choices to make it non-trivial to implement bad software for the interfaces it serves, it's an obvious choice IMO.
- XorNot 12y agoThis is a problem which needs to be fixed, as cryptolocker demonstrates. We really need some hard boundaries set between non-interactive and interactive requests to open files. Sensible ones too - not "ask about every file", but maybe "grant process access to this folder in my documents folder, without recursive access". Even better would be "fire this backup utility first, then grant access".
- antocv 12y agoThis could be implemented for ~ using a fuse.