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Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle
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Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle


  • Subject: Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle
  • From: cricket <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:29:03 -0700

On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 05:14 PM, Reinhold Penner wrote:

We're rightfully concerned that someone could send out an Applescript application via email that, when run, will silently (no UI) send out personal data without the user's knowledge that this is taking place.

Well, if I were in that business, I wouldn't use Mail.app to transmit the info via email. I would just write a shell script that transferred those data via a post. There is just no way you can protect the user from executables...

But you can help educate them about what's happening on their own system. :)

- cricket

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