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RE: discovered a security vulnerability
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According to your logic, as far as I understood it, storing documents like chat logs in the "My Documents" folder is a security vulnerability because some people might accidentally share that folder with peer-to-peer applications?  (people still use those? o_0)

Everything you communicate with others via the internet can be logged by the receiver and there's no way Plus! could prevent that.

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Originally posted by allaoua
Messenger Plus Live is the default save location in acceissible by software Peer to Peer
The My Documents folder is the standard location for storing such documents, as proposed by Microsoft.
And, it is indeed not the business of software like Messenger Plus! to check if users have set up their peer-to-peer software correctly.

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Originally posted by allaoua
the greater part of the user logins do not even know not that there are conversations in their "My Documents"
Users get notified about chat logging the first time they use Messenger Plus and have the option to disable/enable it.

To sum up, this can't be fixed by Plus! because the problem exists between keyboard and chair.
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07-30-2010 09:41 PM
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discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 11:43 AM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Tochjo on 07-30-2010 at 11:49 AM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 12:00 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Patchou on 07-30-2010 at 03:48 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by matty on 07-30-2010 at 04:08 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 04:37 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Menthix on 07-30-2010 at 05:36 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 07:36 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Menthix on 07-30-2010 at 07:47 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 08:15 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by matty on 07-30-2010 at 08:22 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Menthix on 07-30-2010 at 08:29 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by lizard.boy on 07-30-2010 at 08:32 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by allaoua on 07-30-2010 at 08:49 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by andrey on 07-30-2010 at 09:41 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Menthix on 07-30-2010 at 09:47 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Chrono on 07-30-2010 at 10:04 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Kafman on 07-30-2010 at 10:42 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by Chrissy on 07-31-2010 at 02:08 PM
RE: discovered a security vulnerability - by matty on 07-31-2010 at 03:41 PM


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