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Re: [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager

To: Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager
From: "Paulo J. S. Silva" <pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:15:31 -0200
Cc: Ayatana List <ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> So even though not having the pop-up behavior in administrative tasks
> would help us explain to user how to behave when they see weird
> pop-ups in their computers.
>

Argh! What a bad (and convoluted) sentence.

I meant: So even though there are scenarios where disabling the
pop-up/under behavior of administrative applications would not
completely protect the user it can at least help us  to the users how
to behave when they see weird pop-ups in their computers: close them.

Sorry for the bad English, not my mother tongue.

Paulo

-- 
Paulo José da Silva e Silva
Professor Associado, Dep. de Ciência da Computação
(Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.)
Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil

e-mail: pjssilva@xxxxxxxxxx         Web: http://www.ime.usp.br/~pjssilva

References:
- [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager
  - From: Paulo J. S. Silva
- Re: [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager
  - From: Matthew Paul Thomas
- Re: [Ayatana] Possible security risk with update-manager
  - From: Paulo J. S. Silva

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