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Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:59 am
by Robin
Luiji wrote:there really is no need for sandboxing as long as we players just run do a quick look through the code.
Robin wrote:for me sandboxing LÖVE isn't so much to make it “safe” as for the reason that a game has no business with most of my data.
(And by the way, in the unlikely case anyone contracts anything from a .love, do you really want to say to them “Well, it's your own fault: you should have read the source.”?)
Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:37 pm
by Luiji
Wow, this is the first program in which all of my suggestions have all split the community into a Yes and No group. I guess that's good, because it means everybody will point out the good and bad other then me.
Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:15 pm
by Robin
Of course, this also means that if this goes wrong, you'll take all the blame.
Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:52 pm
by Luiji
Worth it.
Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 11:14 pm
by Benamas
Robin wrote:(And by the way, in the unlikely case anyone contracts anything from a .love, do you really want to say to them “Well, it's your own fault: you should have read the source.”?)
if you contract a virus from ANYTHING it's basically always your own fault
never ever open any script or program that doesn't come from a trusted source
Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 12:00 am
by Luiji
Would you say this is a trusted source since so many people play the games and don't contract anything?
Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:58 am
by Benamas
Luiji wrote:Would you say this is a trusted source since so many people play the games and don't contract anything?
mostly; the forum moderators should pull down anything nasty before it spreads very far but you never know
ADDENDUM: the chance is so remote that i consider it acceptable risk and download like crazy anyway BUT you never know
Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:21 am
by Robin
Benamas wrote:mostly; the forum moderators should pull down anything nasty before it spreads very far but you never know
And of course if this forum grows, the moderators can't always react in time, especially because if someone alerts them they found malware, the mods will have to check whether that's true before acting.
Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:38 pm
by Luiji
I figure if five users that I've seen around before don't say anything it's probably safe, right?
Re: Complete Lack of Viral Capability
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:15 pm
by Robin
Luiji wrote:I figure if five users that I've seen around before don't say anything it's probably safe, right?
But how do you know it's not malware anyway, and they just haven't read the source?