Once damage has already been done though, this won't be very helpful. That's sort of like saying "You can remove a virus once it has already infected your computer and deleted your important files."
There needs to be something proactive in place to prevent a robot/ gadget from running. A user not only needs to be the one that adds the virus, but also the one who enables it to have access to parts of the wave. In example. A user installs a robot. Maybe via a dialogue box, they have the opportunity to enable that robot permission to join a wave, another option to enable it to add things to the wave, and another to allow it to edit parts of the conversation. Users need to have control over all aspects of the gadgets/robots, or else someone will have the ability to create robots/gadgets that can be destructive. The creators could maliciously make the gadgets look like something they are not (like trojans) and then users might install those gadgets, become infected by them, and they could then cause harm upon that user's wave. On Sep 25, 9:28 am, James Purser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 06:20 -0700, Tyler wrote: > > This is the biggest thing I was worried about. Is there a setting > > somewhere to disable robots altogether for your account? They have a > > lot of power that could easily be abused by people with bad > > intentions. Advertisers could create robots that insert adds > > throughout messages in hopes of making some money, ie Adware. And > > there's always tracking code that could be inserted ie Spyware. Ick... > > There needs to be a lot of control over these. > > Robots and Gadgets cannot add themselves to existing waves, they need to > be added by already existing participants (human ones at that I > believe). > > You will also be able to remove Robots and Gadgets from waves if they > start to misbehaving. > > -- > James Purser > Collaborynthhttp://collaborynth.com.au > Mob: +61 406 576 553 > Skype: purserj1977 > Twitter:http://twitter.com/purserj --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
