%APPDATA% is within the user’s home directory – by default it should not be
writeable by other users. If this is the case then the problem is one of
bad file permissions, not the location.
Incidentally, many other browsers and tons of software also store
executable code in %APPDATA%.
I think “security nightmare” may be a bit of an overstatement here. I’ll
refrain from panicking about this “issue” for the time…
Mozilla Thunderbird 38 and newer installs and activates per default
the ‘Lightning’ extension.
Since extensions live in the (Firefox and) Thunderbird profiles
(which are stored beneath %APPDATA% in Windows) and ‘Lightning’ comes
(at least for Windows) with a DLL and some Javascript, Thunderbird
with ‘Lightning’ violates one of the mandatory and basic requirements
of the now 20 year old “Designed for…
CODE BLUE in Tokyo is looking for innovative and creative research topics
regarding information security to be presented at the conference.
CODE BLUE is an international conference in Tokyo with the cutting eges
talks from all over the world, and is a place for all participants to
exchange information and interact beyond borders and languages.
We will support the travel airfare/accommodation/honorarium for one speaker
per a session….