I'll look at finding the right place in github to make the suggestion, but I'll mention it here first on the chance that it will raise the discussion with the most effective audience/community.
I understand that in an EMCOMM scenario, it of course makes sense that the...
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...be one and only one directory. An Event HQ station may run with the presumption that any files needed at remote stations would be found in HQ's Shared directory, and furthermore that any remote station which has something to send that HQ and/or other remotes may need, can and should put it in HQ's Shared directory.
However... let's be objective - isn't the majority of D-RATS use of a more casual/hobby nature? Sure, it's practice of practical knowledge, skill, equipment and whatnot, but we're also doing this because we enjoy it. It's a hobby. It should be fun. Some of us are leaving our stuff up and running 24x7 simply because we can.
Therefore, are we not opening ourselves up to potential danger of M4LW4RE spreading by having our open-to-whomever Shared directory be the same directory for uploads and downloads?
Yes, we hams are somewhat more tech savvy than the average bear. But we're not - as a group - infallible. When I tell you that I had a ham radio buddy a while back who just did not get it, and got his computer so infected that I shut off my WiFi before he brought it over to get my help with it, many of you had someone pop into your mind. Didn't you?
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Here's my point:
I would prefer to choose the directory into which I download things.
Distinctly, I would prefer to manage what is Shared from my station.
(In my case, these would not be the same, except if I were involved in an emcom or organized event situation.)
If someone uploaded something bad to my Shared dir, then someone else downloaded that bad thing from my Shared dir, and it caused harm, I would feel really bad about that. I'd much rather have the uploaded-to-me directory be treated as a quarantined, highly suspect, scan-it-thrice directory. I (and only I) will choose which of those things are then Shared with others from my station.
