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Originally posted by raceprouk
You can't do it using Plus! at all. Anyway, remotely changing someone else's name is a violation of their privacy, since you'd need some form of backdoor Trojan to do it.
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Originally posted by personaomega
With their permission, but without them going and doing it themselves.
It wouldn't be a violation of privacy if the other contact has given permission.
And, while this is not a good enough idea to make it to the main MsgPlus! program, I think that a whitelist*-based plugin could be possible to make (mandatory for involved contacts, though).
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Originally posted by QtanJ
Maybe it could specify which emails would be able to change it.
That's exactly what a whitelist is. A list of things that can happen, what's not there is not taken into account. In the case of software, what is allowed.
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Originally posted by colddove
Both or all people who install the patch would need to get a warning before all events and before the install or else it would be against the privacy policy.
A plugin can be downloaded by anyone looking for it. Such as an extension for Firefox. I don't think many people install plugins without having a general idea of what they do.
If you read my somewhat short (and probably incomplete) explanation of what is whitelist, then you'd see that there is no privacy invasion at all.
(in that case)
Update: I'm currently giving this a try as a plugin for MsgPlus!. If any experienced user wants to try it out with me, add me to MSNM (I still wouldn't give this out to just anyone who can't report problems properly).
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