On 6/30/06, Chris chris.kcat@gmail.com wrote:
This sounds like you missed my point.
I think you're missing our points Chris...
it's not inherently detramental (since the user would be instructed to manually do what autorun does automatically
Yeah. The Sony rootkit users would have gladly followed the instructions on their _audio CDs_ telling them to install software that prevented fair use and installed illegal software.
We're not talking about preventing legitimate use of auto-running CDs. We're talking about a sound, simple, and easy way to prevent illegitimate exploitation.
If you can develop a way for Wine to automatically determine whether or not an executable on removable media is something useful or a rootkit, then you may get a little more enthusiasm for this 'feature'.
--tim