[Bug 215030] [NEW] kcm_privacy module doesn't clear Konqueror's faviconrc and web history

[AleksanderAdamowski]

Public bug reported:

The file ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/faviconrc is a privacy-sensitive
file almost as much as browsing history, since it contains a list of all
visited sites that featured a favicon. The history file at
~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/konq_history is even more sensitive as it
contains the browsing history.

As such, their contents should be cleared when "Favourite Icons" and
"Web History" are selected for cleanup in privacy KDE Control Module.

However, when the user issues "kcmshell privacy", and selects all web
browsing items, then clicks "Clean Up", they are left intact. Moreover,
if the user deletes the faviconrc file by hand, it will be *recreated*
(!!!) when KDE session ends because it's maintained in memory and
flushed to disk at KDE session shutdown. In order to clean up faviconrc,
the user has to leave KDE and only when there's no KDE session running
(e.g. by logging in on on VGA console), he has to delete
~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/faviconrc.

This is a serious privacy issue, as the privacy control module doesn't
do what it suggests it is doing, and in addition the current logic of
KDE makes cleaning up by hand much harder than one would possibly
expect.

When cleaning up, the privacy KDE control module should immediately
clean up both  the on disk and in-memory representations of web browsing
history and favicons.

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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kcm_privacy module doesn't clear Konqueror's faviconrc and web history
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