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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13397700

Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data

Or is it just buggy?

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[โ€“] DerpDerpingtonIsHere 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oofta. Theirs no reason a theme should be allowed to do this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Or at least not alert the user that it has those powers. This would suggest KDE needs some ranked permissions for their themes and add-ons to prevent this from happening willy-nilly.