Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- Subject: Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:10:00 -0600
On 3/25/04 3:43 PM, "Michael Terry" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> You're right. I downloaded it, read the docs, couldn't read the code
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> and
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> listened to my network administrator side saying, "warning: network
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> applications written wihout thought one given to security", and
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> deleted it.
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The problem with the network side of your brain saying that is that
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it's mostly not a network app. Peter primarily targets this for
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personal use on your own computer. Even if you did allow network
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access, it requires a prohibitive amount of setup on the client machine
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of all executable code. Hard to see what the unreasonable security
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risks are.
It's an unsecured application that can connect an executable applescript to
a URL on HTML...that makes it vulnerable.
I don't *care* what the target is. I can't see the source and verify it's
safety, or lack thereof for myself. Ergo the risk is unacceptable.
john
--
You're about as sharp as a marble
Matt Broman
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