Re: Firefox "Looking Glass" fiasco

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Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Well, practically speaking we do have to have *some* degree of trust in
> our suppliers for apps as large and complex as a web browser or, say,
> an office app.

True, but I do think there's a difference between trusting code we get
and trusting that they will properly secure/won't abuse an additional
install channel.

> I dunno about 'silently', but there are certainly other cases of this,
> yes. GNOME Software can install GNOME Shell extensions (which are code,
> and can do anything with the privileges of the user account running the
> shell) from a non-Fedora source (extensions.gnome.org), for instance.

So, I guess it is in policy somewhere, but... what's the difference
between that and Fedora having RPMs that install yum repo files for
other repositories?
-- 
Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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