- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:35:17 +0200
- To: whatwg@whatwg.org, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:58:42 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > However, both exposing the hiearchy and flattening it have all kinds of > risks. It's possible for the user to accidentally expose his entire > computer's hard drive without realising it. On some systems (including at > least modern Mac OS and Linux OSes, not sure about Windows), it's > possible > to have hard-link loops. On some systems, it's possible to drag special > directories like "..", and it's not clear what that would mean. When the > user drags files from multiple parts of the file system (e.g. from a > Windows virtual folder), it's not clear what parts of the path we should > expose -- even exposing just the common parts can expose sensitive > information like the profile path if one file is in the user's profile > and > another is not. For the record, these are blocking concerns for Opera. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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