Re: Security capabilities (enablePrivilege, etc)

2006-03-13 Thread Boris Zbarsky
JoeS wrote: Mail and news have very different security needs IMHO That may well be. Might be worth filing a bug on that. I suspect the default configuration would still have the same prefs set for both of them, though... -Boris ___ dev-security m

Re: Security capabilities (enablePrivilege, etc)

2006-03-13 Thread JoeS
Boris Zbarsky wrote: JoeS wrote: Yes, but only if you know that default policies have been violated. Er... you can set up policies even if nothing has been violated. I think at least an alert should be done here So a site can go into an endless alert loop by violating a security policy in

Re: Security capabilities (enablePrivilege, etc)

2006-03-13 Thread Brendan Eich
Ka-Ping Yee wrote: We should scrap all this and do something better. I'm really glad to see that there's interest in a new and better design. Me too. One thought I had the other week is to enable privileges implicitly based on "latent trust": site has good CA-signed cert, you've connected

Re: How to access new security newsgroup

2006-03-13 Thread Gervase Markham
Frank Wein wrote: > Oh it's just the users here who top-post ;). In general i think there is > an agreement that buttom-posting should be used in the new mozilla.* > groups. http://www.mozilla.org/community/etiquette.html See "Trim your follow-ups" and "Top-posting vs. bottom-posting". Gerv ___

Re: Security capabilities (enablePrivilege, etc)

2006-03-13 Thread Gervase Markham
Brendan Eich wrote: > One thought I had the other week is to enable privileges implicitly > based on "latent trust": site has good CA-signed cert, you've connected > with SSL, you've got a password saved for this site, you are logged in. > > Such a site could have some awesome powers, but not supe