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cm3 on May 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firejail now supports X11 sandboxing

WebTorrent is something I'm afraid to try due to the laws in the place I live and nobody answered me when I asked if WebRTC p2p connections first show a permission popup like Microphone or Speaker access. I don't know how the file access APIs work in JavaScript, but it's scary to think a random website could have a random JS snippet that uploads a file from $HOME.

orf on May 2, 2016 [–]

There will of course be a permission pompt.

cm3 on May 3, 2016 | | [–]

Come to think of it, why doesn't a WebRTC connection on something like appear.in prompt for Network permission?

cm3 on May 2, 2016 | | [–]

Good to know, I might try it the next time I'm in another country.

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