[Owncloud] Any application there (apart from Media) using the user's password ?

Robin Appelman icewind at owncloud.com
Wed Feb 6 11:21:23 UTC 2013


There is no practical way to know what hooks are used, apps can build the string containing the hook name in many obscure ways.

And again, hooks are by far not the largest problems.

 - Robin Appelman

Arman Khalatyan <arm2arm at gmail.com> wrote:

>I suggest to add description per app like what kind of HOOKS it is
>using: File IO hooks, Password hooks, something like Android
>permissions in android apps.
>arman.
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>On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.com> wrote:
>> On 02/06/2013 11:21 AM, Antoine Diamant-Berger wrote:
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>>> "A malicious app can..."
>>> OK. Then shouldn't the documentation (at least) and maybe application
>>> installation process be more vocal about risks of installing 3rd party
>>> apps ?
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>> We could add a warning if a user clicks on installing a 3rd party app.
>> Something like "Warning. This app might do ... Do you really want to do
>> that?"
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>> The problem is that this would give us a better feeling but the users will
>> click Yes anyways. So I'm not sure this is helpful.
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>> Frank
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