[c-nsp] "Enhanced" download procedure

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Tue Sep 15 14:41:29 EDT 2009


On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote:

> Church, Charles wrote:
>> It looks like it needs unrestricted access so that it can access  
>> your file system, since it presents its own file manager looking  
>> thing so you can pick where to save the files.  No way to know for  
>> sure though.
>
> But every browser has a built-in download utility so this is  
> worthless complexity and a potential security hole.  It also  
> completely breaks lynx and wget, and the benefits are exactly what?
>
> Do the people at Cisco have any idea that this so-called improvement  
> is actually a hindrance?

No.

They don't care.

Just like this person, but at least this was a joke:

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml

	- Jared



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