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: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 00:31:38 -0700
At 17:14 -0700 8/16/2002, Jon Pugh wrote:
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At 4:54 PM -0700 8/16/02, cricket wrote:
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>We're rightfully concerned that someone could send out an AppleScript
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>application via email that, when run, will silently (no UI) send out
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>personal data without the user's knowledge that this is taking place.
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do shell script "/usr/bin/mail ..."
Not unless the user has (or the script does) fix the now-traditional broken
sendmail configuration which comes with Mac OS X. [In a few days, I'll
find out whether the tradition continues. ;-)]
I'm with cricket on this one (and I'm reminded of "Woody's" advice not to
move to [Windows] OE 5.5 something because it turned of features used by
some of the viruses, and it would seem by Woody in a non-viral way).
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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