Em Sex, 2003-12-26 Ãs 07:05, Charles Goodwin escreveu: > > > > 1. Windows hides the .exe > > 2. Even if windows does not have the .exe, the users are able to execute > > attached programs. > > So you're advocating that all users know what .exe means. Oh, and .pl, > .py, .sh, etc etc. Yes, that's really a solution... not. > Or are you advocating that we kill email functionality by disallowing > the manual opening of attachments to protect the user? No. If you've read carefully, you willl notice that I said "the users are able to execute attached *programs*". It is insane to execute attached *programs* from mail clients. Clients must open only files with their associated application. And if we associate .py, .pl, .sh and .tcl with they interpreters, we are running programs as if they were documents, putting the user at risk. I'm advocating that we separate the concepts of 'opening files' from 'running programs'. An e-mail client should not 'run programs'. Just 'open files'. The Micros~1 flaw is to have a single function (ShellExecute, actually) that opens files, programs, URLs, etc. If they had a ShellOpenFile and a ShellExecute and used them in the correct places, they didn't have such problems. -- Fabio Gomes de Souza <fabio@xxxxxxxxxx> (+55 81 9127-0597) .- GS2 TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA :: www.gs2.com.br |- IT Infrastructure :: Security :: Embedded systems :: Linux `- Olinda, Brazil - +55 81 3492-7777 - negocios@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
