[Bug 19101] Re: nautilus's clever anti-hax0r detection is really dumb

[Steve K]

Does anyone have a work-around handy, for disabling this entire
"security" "feature"?

In my web searches, I find nothing about how to turn it off.  
What I do see, are instances of the same error message 
reported in numerous forums.  The problem is normally 
misinterpreted by the local geeks and gurus in these forums, 
as an application level problem or (most commonly), a 
missing filesystem permission on an executable file.  The 
real bug looks and sounds too much like deliberate sabotage 
to seem possible.

I certainly don't need it, it's nothing but an annoyance to 
anyone who pays attention to where the files on his or her 
system came from.  This "feature" adds nothing but extra time
and motion to the simplest and most frequently used task on 
the desktop.  I am seriously thinking about the time/effort 
tradeoff in switching from Gnome to KDE on account of it.

Clueless newbies also don't need it, unless someone thinks 
it's a good idea to protect them from hypothetical hostile 
content by disabling the only file-open method they know 
about.  (Insert famous quote about unplugged computer 
encased in a cube of concrete here.)

:o/

Steve

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nautilus's clever anti-hax0r detection is really dumb
https://launchpad.net/bugs/19101