Re: Accessibility penalty?
Re: Accessibility penalty?
- Subject: Re: Accessibility penalty?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:28:00 -0400
on 03-07-29 9:29 PM, Andrew Taylor at email@hidden wrote:
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Security. The Accessibility API allows programs to control the
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machine and do anything to another program completely behind the
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user's back. It is potentially the "back door" that weakens UNIX when
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remote control of another machine is left unguarded. It is just like
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putting your valuable data on a machine and turning on guest access
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on the internet. So Apple turns it off by default (as they should)
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and requires a real user to turn it on.
On this theory, AppleScript and a whole lot of other built-in utilities
would also be turned off by default.
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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