He was the one who told me about it as I was having a discussion on twitter regarding this with him. He was part of the ones who wanted to pull it as far as I understand.
Tc. > On Jan 15, 2015, at 6:19 AM, Shawn Klein via Skypeenglish > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for letting us know. > Do you know if he's been told about it? > Shawn Klein > > -----Original Message----- > From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Sarah k Alawami via Skypeenglish > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 10:15 PM > To: Skype English list > Subject: [Bulk] Re: [Skypeenglish] Bad news about the Skype NVDA addon... > > Ok. I heard from one of the nvda devs. Apparently the code in the add on was > preventing NVDA RC 14 .4 from shutting down properly. That might be a good > thing if the author decides to fix it. Just decided I'd let you all know. > > Take care. >> On Jan 12, 2015, at 6:49 AM, Shawn Klein via Skypeenglish > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hmm, I'd want to hear more details than that before I went freaking out, I >> just had a look at the source code, and I don't really know what I'm > looking >> at, but I didn't find any definitions for NVDA+Q like there were for all > the >> listed commands. What's the security issue? Is it going to automatically >> accept malicious files and click on links from some user designated by the >> developer? Or unintentionally allow a random hacker to do so, or what? I'm >> always suspicious when I hear such vague warnings with no real details, > just >> like I am with those email forwards not written by a known antivirus >> provider, telling me about some vague unnamed virus that's going to wipe > out >> all my files and destroy sector 000. Is the source of this news reliable? > Is >> he or she a programmer familiar with creating NVDA adons? I don't speak >> Italian, but could probably get the gist of the message with google >> translate and my knowledge of other Latin languages. Could you post the >> original message here? >> Shawn Klein >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Michele Barbi via Skypeenglish >> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 3:44 AM >> To: Skypeenglish list >> Subject: [Bulk] [Skypeenglish] Bad news about the Skype NVDA addon... >> >> Hello, I just received a message on my italian list saying that the NVDA >> addon for Skype has got security issues, and possibly NVDA+q has another >> function. It's recommendable not to publish it too much from now on. 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