Comment 6 for bug 107103
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| Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments | #6 |
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> If apport (the interacting with the user part) knows the password(s) that could be in any attachment it can scrub them.
How should it? There isn't a single place which holds/knows all your passwords, secret projects, personal data, and other sensitive stuff, except maybe your brain.
> The real solution here is to allow users to prevent an attachment from being included with an apport report.
Then such bug reports would loose everything that a developer needs to actually look into the problem. We could basically just say "program foo has crashed".