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Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
  • From: Michael Terry <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:27:42 -0800

On Mar 26, 2004, at 10:29 AM, John W. Baxter wrote:

I'm not planning to put Missing Link on the machine I'm working from at this
moment. The machine has too much access into other machines elsewhere...I
can't take the chance. I earn my living from the machine.

If I had a sandbox machine, I could put Missing Link there (a proper sandbox
would have no access to this machine). But I don't.


See, and this is a reasonable response. It *is* hard to know what the risks are for a piece of software you don't fully understand, yet. Test it out in a sandbox, by all means. But the following is not a reasonable response:

On Mar 24, 2004, at 5:08 PM, John C. Welch wrote:

Beyond that, I always thought it would be cool to go to a home page (or a
bookmarked page) and have all kinda local functionality.

And so would the first cracker that figured out you had this application
running.

Which automatically assumes that the program is insecure. That's just lazy, mean blind-siding.


Mike
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