RFC: On-demand package installation API in kdelibs

Ivan Čukić ivan.cukic at kde.org
Wed Jul 28 20:00:40 BST 2010


> In a short while, evil websites will start do magic like
>
> if(khtml or qtwebkit) {
>    do_popup_asking_for_login_credentials();
>    send_credentials_to_evil_owner();
> }

I don't think anyone was intending to expose this API to html
renderers (or anything similar for that matter).

It is like saying that today, the evildoers can do

if (kdesu) {
   run_kdesu_to_run_something();
}


Cheerio,
Ivan

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Cheerio,
Ivan

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