- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:45:23 -0800
- To: ifette@google.com
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>, public-device-apis@w3.org
2009/11/12 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) <ifette@google.com>: > 2009/11/12 Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> >> >> 2009/11/12 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ) <ifette@google.com>: >> > This is really getting into fantasy-land... Writing a file and hoping >> > that >> > the user actually opens up explorer/finder/whatever and browses to some >> > folder deep within the profile directory, and then double clicks >> > something? >> > Telling a user "click here and run blah to get a pony" is so much >> > easier. >> >> So first off that only addresses one of the two attacks I listed. >> > > Fair > >> >> But even that case I don't think is that fantasy-y. The whole point of >> writing actual files is so that users can interact with the files, >> right? In doing so they'll be just a double-click away from running >> arbitrary malicious code. No warning dialogs or anything. Instead the > > Why do you assume this? On Windows, we can write the MotW identifier, which > would lead to windows showing a warning. On linux, we could refuse to chmod > +x. Ah, don't know enough about this feature so can't really comment. All the information I found was regarding MotW on webpages, not on executables. / Jonas
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