On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:31:23PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > João Pinto writes ("Re: Untrusted software and security click-through > warnings"): > > 2 - fake software, or "companion" software > ... > > Case 2 can only be addressed by educating people on how to use the > > internet on a safely manner, again, typing random commands from an > > untrusted web site is a major security risk for any OS, and it is a > > very common practice for Linux users in particular > > At the moment a user can unwittingly compromise their system just by > clicking on one thing on a website and then saying `yes' a few times. > > What I'm suggesting is that if they want to do that they should be > required to do something a little more complicated which is more > likely to trigger an actual decisionmaking process. Like, for > example, typing random commands they found on a webpage.
how about using a captcha-like mechanism to trigger this decisionmaking process? - Alexander -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss