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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 17:30:12 -0700

If you configure sendmail, presumably you're smart enough to know that you've opened this particular channel that could be exploited by a script. Sendmail doesn't work by default.

- cricket

On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 05:14 PM, Jon Pugh 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.

do shell script "/usr/bin/mail ..."

This is unix, there's a way around anything.

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