On Wed, 2022-03-30 at 00:13 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev
dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:21 PM Martin Honnen
martin(_dot_)honnen(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de <
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but of course no convincing way for people accustomed to the ease
the
file system used to offer but browser vendors have decided to take
away.
Maybe security is of higher importance than convenience?
In particular in multi-user systems there's no reliable way to detect
that you've wandered into another user's directory. This can happen on
Windows and Mac just as much as Linux or Unix of course. So there was
a class of attacks that involved getting a user to load a script that
someone else had written.
Liam
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