Re: Autoplay considered harmful

[Dan Kegel]

On Feb 16, 2008 7:08 AM, John Klehm  wrote:
> > Dan Kegel wrote:
> > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&am...
> > > says that USB devices are being sold with infected
> > > autorun apps.  "If you plug in, you're already infected,"
> > >
> > > I'd say that's a pretty good argument for not supporting autoplay...
>
> Completely not supported or disabled by default?

By default, I guess.   Some customers might know their cd-rom's
are safe, and we should let them enable it via a control panel, I guess.
But autoplay support is kind of a distro packaging thing, I think,
so we probably have to discuss this with whoever builds the packages...?