On Thursday 06 December 2007 20:05:47 Curtis Olson wrote: > Honestly, this is a weak point. An application has a lot of power and can > do a lot of things over the network, to the local file system, to your > personal files, etc. Which is why I suggest being cautious about monitoring the capabilities that FG has to ensure that it isn't too easily used in a malicious manner. I wish people would stop pasting single sentences out of IRC conversations into mailing lists - they're always taken out of context and end up saying something slightly different to what they did originally :-\
The "BSTS" comment was simply a passing, and not particularly good play on MS' BITS in response to someone else's comment about such a feature being MS-like. It wasn't a great rallying cry in the war against file transfer :-) > Many people are doing essentially a low-tech version of this same > remote/ondemand download idea for scenery using "terrasync". I've never > heard of anyone refer to terrasync as doing something sneaky behind your > back. That's because it isn't. I don't use it myself - I choose the scenery sections I want and download them manually. But terrasync is completely optional and not built into fgfs - just like fgrun, which is where I was suggesting this kind of capability would be best situated. > How do you guys get through life without running a web browser which <oh > my> downloads things that aren't already in your cache! By being reasonably careful about which websites I visit, which web browser I use and by disabling javascript,flash et al by default (the "noscript" extension to firefox makes this practical to assign on a site-by-site basis.) Nobody is suggesting that downloading stuff is too dangerous to be considered - indeed I was the first to voice my support for John's idea! My opinion is just that users should have the best possible idea of exactly what, when and how much they are downloading. Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
