Re: Is there any way to kill a seahorse?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

Quoting Bruce Korb <bkorb gnu org>:
> On 04/11/12 19:11, Michael Stephenson wrote:
> > So suddenly you care about security again?>
> There are two flavors of security:  Physical and electronic.
> now.  Everything else is stopped at the router.

It doesn't actually work that way.  Your machine communicates with  
other hosts all the time, and those hosts *can* use the out-bound  
connections you create.  But this isn'tthe forum to discuss basic  
network security;  just know that I've sat through numerous  
presentations and demos about how to exploit machines that do not  
permit inbound connections -  it is often easier than you think.

> robotic intruder is going to guess my /path/to/my/password/db.txt
> In the end, I do not want to have passwords demanded of me
> by some I-know-better-than-you-do password manager,
> either when I login or when I visit web sites.

So when applications and websites demand passwords of you - you  
cut-n-paste them from a text file?  How is that easier [or more  
secure] than entering a password at login and permitting the rest of  
your passwords to be stored in an encrypted database accessed via a  
consitent API?

You can do it your way - but it does *not* make any sense.

And I have no idea what "I-know-better-than-you-do password manager"  
implies other than it knows to encrypt the data and allow you to  
control access to it.

> > In your confused head you want rid of this system because
> > it is inconvenient, having to enter a password all the time.
> In your confused head, you are certain you know better than

Yes.

> me and you coded your software on that presumption.
> That presumption is wrong 100% of the time.

Nope.

> Anyway, my thanks to Stef.  gnome-keyring is gone!

See, gnome-keyring is optional! :)