On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 14:06, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:13 -0400, Eric Northup wrote: > > There are situations where programs want to know that they have a > > *mostly* private communication channel to an output device. For > > example, a spreadsheet which stores patient information in a medical > > practice must be careful that random applications don't take > > screenshots or steal their clipboard contents. Also, password entry > > dialog boxes, etc. But these applications do not want to prohibit the > > *user* (ie, the shell) from taking screen dumps.... > > Actually, this last sentence is not correct.
Why not? The user is in a position to record and disclose the information anyway (using, for example, a digital camera to take a capture of the screen). I'm not arguing that its a good idea, or that users should be encouraged to take screenshots of their passwords, but rather that I don't see any fundamental reason to prohibit it. What am I missing here? -Eric _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
