Re: [Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2008-10-29 Thread Martin Pitt
summary Allow user to suppress individual fields when sending a report status triaged importance low done Brian J. Murrell [2008-10-28 11:16 -]: > > > I should be able to deselect sending any of the stack trace > > > attachments too. > > > > That's a possible enhancement indeed. > > Do t

Re: [Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2008-10-28 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 09:58 +, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi Martin, > Right. Just to be clear, I am not *really* happy about sending core > dumps either, but it's currently the only practical method to get any > helpful information out of most crashes. Understood. > If the stack trace

Re: [Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2008-10-28 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Brian, Brian J. Murrell [2008-10-23 20:50 -]: > Indeed. But I can visually inspect stack traces. I cannot do that with > the CoreDump. Right. Just to be clear, I am not *really* happy about sending core dumps either, but it's currently the only practical method to get any helpful informa

Re: [Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2008-10-23 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 19:50 +, Martin Pitt wrote: > That's of course important supplementary data, but on its own it is > worthless to describe the problem, yes. Of course, however along with... > Stack traces can already contain pretty much anything, passwords, PIN > numbers, secret project

Re: [Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2008-10-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Brian J. Murrell [2008-10-23 18:17 -]: > So knowing the package versions, distro release version That's of course important supplementary data, but on its own it is worthless to describe the problem, yes. > and having stack traces Stack traces can already contain pretty much anything, passw

Re: [Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2008-10-23 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:59 +, Martin Pitt wrote: > > 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. Sure. The keyring potentially has a wealth of them, yes. Perhaps appo

[Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2008-10-23 Thread Martin Pitt
> 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

[Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2008-10-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Martin, Seriously? "Yes, it's a problem but we don't know how to fix it, so we will just close it"? As for "https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/crash-reporting"; that does not solve the problem. My passwords are still in LP's database and only as safe as LP is secure (which I have no reason to b

[Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2007-04-17 Thread Brian J. Murrell
If apport (the interacting with the user part) knows the password(s) that could be in any attachment it can scrub them. The question is whether to expose passwords to apport or not. -- should try to sanitize passwords from attachments https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107103 You received this bug

[Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2007-04-17 Thread Martin Pitt
I confirm that both stack traces and core dumps can potentially have stack traces. However, there is no reliable way of detecting passwords automatically, thus I better close this one. The better solution is to not expose these things to the public bug tracker in the first place, see https://launc

Re: [Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2007-04-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2007-16-04 at 22:29 +, Marco Rodrigues wrote: > Have you an example of this ? I think it doesn't includes that type of > information... A coredump of a login process dying or screen-saver unlocking process will most certainly contain a password. Trust me. I have a core dump here in h

[Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2007-04-16 Thread Marco Rodrigues
Have you an example of this ? I think it doesn't includes that type of information... -- should try to sanitize passwords from attachments https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107103 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 107103] Re: should try to sanitize passwords from attachments

2007-04-16 Thread Marco Rodrigues
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- should try to sanitize passwords from attachments https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107103 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai