potential disclosure of private data in konqueror

Tim Jansen ml at tjansen.de
Mon Jan 13 22:18:27 GMT 2003


On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:59, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> think about this: you fight with copy&paste (thanks to klipper) and you
> accidentally paste something in the location bar of konqueror that
> shouldn't end up there.
> Wouldn't it make sense to popup a question messagebox first before we do
> the "fallback-try-google" case ?

If this is a security problem, then what about the following:
- you paste something in the location bar and send it to your DNS server
- you paste something behind a URL, and send it to the webserver that owns the 
url

(it may make sense to limit the number of words to 10. Google does not use 
more words anyway)

bye...






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