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

[Colin Barrett]

On Apr 23, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> 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...

This sounds reasonable to me too.

Don't want to jinx anything, but I'm opening Adium.xcodeproj...

-Colin