Non-commercial redistributable game data

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 05/17/2010 02:45 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 06:13 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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>> On 05/17/2010 02:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>> On 05/17/2010 06:03 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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>>>> Do I understand this correctly?
>>>> * FESCO has a approved an installer which circumvents rpm?
>>>>
>>>> * This installer is installing to /usr/share?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> That seems to be a misunderstanding.  Autodownloader downloads data to
>>> your home directory.
>>>        
>> OK, it opens up the gates to worms and viruses.
>>      
> Can you explain how?  Autodownloader has a hash of the files that it
> downloads and verifies them.
>    
$HOME == automated arbitrary access to arbitrary user data == arbirary 
option to install maliculous programs (viruses, spyware etc.).