On 2001-12-10 23:20:47 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Well, you "complain" that mkisofs writes the command line into this > "version sector". > > I agree and say, that some paranoid people might see this as a problem. > I don't argue against you on *this* point. Although it doesn't bother > me at all that mkisofs does that, I, well, agree that this might be a > security "risk". > > I disagree that all the other information should be thrown away as you > did with your patch.
As there are options to disable this privacy leak it's not so important. (It would be good to default to not writing this information) > > I'm referring to the version sector written by mkisofs that no other CD > > writing program I know writes. In this sector is written the the > > mkisofs version, the current date, and the whole command line > > (mkisofs /path/to/my/files -output cd_image) > > Yep, understood. I'm with you; some overly security conscious people > might not like that. The problem here is that most people that use mkisofs don't know that this information is written to the CD. You, J�rg and me know that this information is written and know if being on the CD matters or not. What I'm proposing is to default to not write this information to the CD. But having an option to enable it if the user knows and wants it it's OK. Regards, Eduardo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
