Authorized clients

Martin Peres martin.peres at free.fr
Wed Jan 8 04:02:10 PST 2014


On 07/01/2014 20:26, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>
>     Would it be ok for you if the compositor asked the user to agree
>     for the program to
>     do the operation? If so, we can guarantee that this is really the
>     user's intent and
>     allow the application. We can also add a security warning with a
>     "Do not ask again"
>     checkbox. Would it be satisfactory to you?
>
>
> The user opened up a screen recording app. The user's intent is very 
> much to record the screen. We don't need to ask the user again with a 
> prompt.

How do you make sure it WAS launched by the user and not run silently by 
one application?
That's the whole problem.


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