Hello, I am not a developer, but I would like to bring your attention to a serious privacy issue I sumbled opon today:
Gnome-shell version provided with Trisquel 6, auto answers incoming audio and video calls. It doesn't show any warning or notification for incoming call. It simply starts transmitting audio/video from the computer that receives the call without the consent of the recipient. How to replicate the issue: Distribution - Trisquel 6 GNOME 3.4.2 with Kernel 3.2.0-57-generic 1) Install gnome shell on Trisquel 6. 2) Add your xmpp/jabber/google account to the default IM client (empathy). This starts operating in the background. Your status can be set from the desktop. 3) Log out from the desktop and log in. Your online status is now shown without starting empathy. 4) Call yourself (call the account you added to empathy) from another computer, another account. 5) Your desktop will auto-answer the audio/video call. Please see the forum discussion https://trisquel.info/en/forum/gnome-shell-privacy-issue-auto-answering-voice-and-video-calls Trisquel bug report https://trisquel.info/en/issues/10724 And GNOME bug report https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720525 I am told that this version of gnome-shell is no longer supported by the upstream. So this needs to be fixed somewhere downstream. Thanks very much for paying attention. Best regards, Anandawardhana _______________________________________________ Trisquel-devel mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-devel
