Apologies for the discussion, will keep them in future to the forums.

The issue about photo persisting is a question of magnitude, as they are
open already for a short time, so this is not a new break in
security/privacy, but making it a little less. Those needing the patch
(e.g. Thunderbird) would otherwise have to set a long time-out, leading
to the same sort of exposure.

However, the System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory() used to create the
/tmp directories can, I believe, take a security descriptor as well. I
don't know how this works in the Windows/LINUX cross over, but if we
could chmod 700 the resulting directories they would be safe from
reading by others, and as /tmp is normally created with the 'sticky bit'
set, others cannot modify or delete your won directories.

How much it matters is debatable, for most it is probably a single-user
machine, or family, and the default umask allows others to read your
files/photos unless you specifically set permissions to block them. But
setting the temp directories permissions correctly would be a good point
in principle anyway.

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