2009/11/17 Leandro <leandromartine...@gmail.com>: > > Also, can you imagine the security absurd for a > unexperienced user which gets used to the system > popuping something AND asking for root privileges? > How easy is to mimic that with a website popup? >
That is a major point. If there anyone can mimic the pop-up behavior using a website maybe, and I mean just maybe, we can get the developers attention on this possible security role. However it would need to be done very carefully so that the developers can not counter argument (I have the feeling that I have already something on this subject in Ayatana list, but it didn't catch up). If we had a web site that could mimic the behavior so that a innocent user might give away his root password then we may have a real situation to complain once again. Unfortunately I don't have the resources (knowledge and time) to try to do it myself. Paulo -- Paulo José da Silva e Silva Professor Associado, Dep. de Ciência da Computação (Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.) Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil e-mail: pjssi...@ime.usp.br Web: http://www.ime.usp.br/~pjssilva -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information / new update-manager behaviour is annoying https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
