[Adium-devl] Fwd: [Adium-feedback] Auto-Accept Direct Connect

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Zachary West wrote:

>> I've heard the same complaint from a number of people (which is why I
>> forwarded the email). Most were surprised and wondered how they could
>> turn it off. I think part of that might be the way the direct connect
>> feature works, in that it shows a lot of scary-looking information
>> about IP addresses and such.
>>
>
> Perhaps the "auto accept from contacts on my list" should apply to
> both file transfers *and* direct IM? Seems like a good combination,
> since if you want to autoaccept one, you'd want to autoaccept the
> other too.

That seems reasonable to me; there's probably not any reason to make  
this explicit.  The only security risk of a direct IM is revealing the  
IP; accepting a file transfer does the same thing.

Note that we don't make a big deal about the security concerns when  
prompting over files...

-Evan