Re: Addressing one of the gimp vision items..."easy installation of plug-ins"

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On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:20 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote:
> On 05/15/2010 10:05 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
[...]
> > "Click here to install a virus?"
[...]
> I don't think viruses will be a problem in practice if we host a 
> user-moderated plug-in registry on www.gimp.org for example. We could 
> also have support for digital signatures so users can verify that the 
> claimed provider of a plug-in is genuine. That way they can restrict 
> themselves to providers they trust.

Right, I agree, it just has to be thought about.

Liam

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