Pidgin Support - Please Help Out Here.

Daniel Atallah datallah at pidgin.im
Fri Jun 5 13:35:20 EDT 2009


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Dave Warren <lists at hireahit.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:26:28 -0400, Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im>
> was claimed to have wrote:
>
>>Your "security" settings aren't really reasonable - being unable to
>>download executables at all isn't really a security solution (as you
>>can see here - it prevents you from being able to apply security
>>related changes).
>
> It arguably does prevent less skilled users from installing unauthorized
> software... Case in point.

It clearly does not if they can just download zipped binaries and use
those instead. :)

-D




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