KWallet integration

Scott Wheeler wheeler at kde.org
Wed Sep 3 23:11:55 BST 2003


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On Wednesday 03 September 2003 15:13, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> If you share your account with your girlfriend you can give her the wallet 
> password and share that as well, no?

Think roommates or children or whatever.  i.e. I'm fine with walking away and 
coming back to find a roommate checking their webmail on my computer.  I 
however would be displeased if instead they were reading say my webmail.  I 
also wouldn't approve of them ordering things using my credit card.

This is a common case.

There's been a lot of talk here about this or that ultra cool security 
feature.  We're forgetting common cases.  Most folks aren't going to go 
digging through configuration files to find a weakly encrypted password.  On 
the other hand leaving things wide open just because you walked away with 
your screen unlocked is a bad idea.

- -Scott

- -- 
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it 
is not utterly absurd. 
- --Bertrand Russell
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