KDE Wallet Manager: Once a wallet is open an application has access to all passwords there?

[Martin Sandsmark]

On Wednesday 13 November 2013 19:21:46 Jonathan Verner wrote:
> This problem has been bugging me too and I don't think that it should
> be dismissed so easily. Suppose malware started being more common on
> linux. Then a malware author would find the kde wallet to be a treasure
> trove. Of course, one could keep the wallet locked at all times and enter
> the password whenever an application needed access, but that (in my
> opinion) kind of defeats the purpose.

That would be entirely irrelevant, as the malware could just inject itself 
into any of your processes.

If you manage to run malware in your linux machine you have much bigger issues 
than it being able to maybe connect to KWallet.

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Martin Sandsmark