Re: VFS for legacy apps
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com>
- Cc: "gnome-vfs-list gnome org" <gnome-vfs-list gnome org>, "gtk-devel-list gnome org" <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: VFS for legacy apps
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:10:24 +0100
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 19:05 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> As you point out, a local attack against gnome-keyring is a bit too
> easy
> compared to other plausible attacks (esp. keylogger). Maybe we should
> just make gnome-keyring harder to exploit, then?
Its tricky. If we make it too hard to use they'll go back to postit
notes. Security is hard... Anyway, my main point is that we shouldn't
enforce the use of gnome-keyring to implement some features, because
there are valid reasons not to use it always.
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