Re: OS 10.2 & Mail scripting has introduced a new wrinkle
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 17:54:00 -0700
On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 05:33 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. :)
Are you saying that Apple has plans to password protect or put up a
dialog on the first curl command issued via a shell script? ;-)
I don't see why it's futile to make the effort to educate people, even
if you can come up with clever cases that won't trip the education
trigger.
In any event, the warning you get when trying to directly open an
executable within Mail is probably adequate and we should probably just
remove the 'silent send' warning.
- cricket
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