Hi Daniel, Thanks for you reports.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:49:32AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: [...snip...] > > > inkscape 0.43 has collaborative, networked editing via XMPP built-in, > with the Inkboard project. More info is available about it in > /usr/share/doc/inkscape/NEWS.gz > > The attached patch seems to enable this feature for the debian package. > > However, upstream does say that there are known bugs in inkboard, and > of course opening any complicated desktop package to networked input > is a bit scary from a security point of view. These concerns should > be considered as well. I know the efforts around inkboard quite well and I thought about including the option in the debian package. But since there are some bug (besides security risks) which are being worked on, I decided not to enable this feature and wait for the next release when it has matured a little. > Mitigating the security concern somewhat is that it looks like you > need to explicitly connect to an XMPP server for any of the > connectivity to be activated, so users who stay unconnected are > proabably not in any increased risk. > > Thanks for maintaining this package, > > --dkg [...snip...] Thanks, Wolfi
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