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[Webinterface] Warn people when they have downloaded an executable file through Oyster? (Discuss) #169

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rfornea opened this issue Jun 9, 2018 · 1 comment

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@rfornea
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rfornea commented Jun 9, 2018

People in Telegram and on reddit are just downloading random files from random handles posted by other people. A malicious actor could post dangerous handles.

Can we do something to keep users safe? If possible, we should detect that a file they have just downloaded is dangerous, and warn them.

If we can't do anything about this, perhaps a warning message to only download handles from people or websites that they trust?

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CKH4 commented Jun 9, 2018

I am planning to warn users about uploading photos with exif data. I may want to work in a plugin system for warnings.

As for executables, the best we can do is warn by file type (maybe we can work in something using web assembly but that will be very complicated). With Shell we could probably work out a system where virus scanning resources are offered but this is a long way off.

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