Re: [Okular-devel] [Bug 267350] filling out a PDF form saves data to some file i ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/

[John McCabe-Dansted <gmatht@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Dan Armbrust
<daniel.armbrust.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, you have proven that you don't take a security issue seriously.

To be fair, fixing this bug wouldn't stop sensitive information
appearing in swap. Sensitive information also has a tendency to appear
in /tmp and /var as well. The EFF recommends full disk encryption,
which would stop this appearing in clear text anywhere.

> The easy fix is to disable this feature until it can be redeveloped
> with some thought about proper handling of peoples data.

Iirc, last time I used this feature it wouldn't let me print the
annotations, and due to the policy of storing the annotations in a
non-standard format other pdf annotation software couldn't recover my
annotations. I ended up printing a screenshot. Having a warning that
this annotation feature was likely to eat my homework and dump it in
an unencrypted partition would've been nice.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
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