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

[Dan Armbrust]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at> wrote:
> When introducing a new party to a converstation, in this case the KDE user
> mailinglist, it is usually very helpful to provide context to said new party.
>
> When the discussion has happened on one mailinglist so far, a good way to do
> that is to provide a link to the discussion start in the original
> mailinglist's archive.

Apologies, I thought I included the kde list in the initial posts,
which had the summary info.  It must not have gone through.

Here is the bug report in question:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267350

I also reported this to the developer list about 2 years ago:
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/okular-devel/2010-February/006386.html

In short,if you:

Download a PDF.  Fill in personal information.  Print it.  Close it.
Never once even hitting save...

Okular dumps every bit of data that you typed into a clear text file
in a hidden directory.  At a minimum, its really bad behavior.  At
worst, on say, a library terminal, it is opening up every unsuspecting
user to having their information stolen.

There is no warning, notice, or any such clue within ocular that it is
doing this.

Its a pretty basic user-interface paradigm that you shouldn't store
data like that without the users permission.

Especially in an application that handles PDF files, which are used
for private and personal stuff all the time.
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