Automount security concerns?

2011-03-11 Thread Matthias Fuchs
Hi, I just watched a video [1] on exploiting autrun/generating of thumbnails/... of data on usb sticks. Yes this is specific to Gnome, though I wonder if that could be a problem in KDE too, as is mentioned at the ending. E.g. I don't know if strigi starts indexing files automatically on mounted

Re: Automount security concerns?

2011-03-11 Thread Shaun Reich
Yes physical access is always bad. But imagine you are at a place where many people are (and stealing the pc is no option). Just going to the toilet for a short moment -- with the screen locked -- could make your computer cracked. In general I think that nothing usb-stick/new hardware

Re: Automount security concerns?

2011-03-11 Thread Markus Slopianka
I'm wondering if you took the time to actually try Plasma Desktop before posting that mail. By default no drive is mounted automatically. Device Notifier just notifies that a new drive is present. Users have to click first (either in the Plasma popup or Dolphin's side bar) to mount the

Re: Automount security concerns?

2011-03-11 Thread Matthias Fuchs
In fact I have used plasma ... Might be that I changed the default and can't remember anymore. In this case as you pointed out this is most likely a non-issue KDE wise, unless the user changed it to auto mounting. Am Freitag 11 März 2011, 20:27:20 schrieb Markus Slopianka: I'm wondering if you

Re: Automount security concerns?

2011-03-11 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Matthias Fuchs ma...@gmx.net wrote: Am Freitag 11 März 2011, 20:27:20 schrieb Markus Slopianka: Am Freitag 11 März 2011, 18:35:45 schrieb Matthias Fuchs: Hi, I just watched a video [1] on exploiting autrun/generating of thumbnails/... of data on usb