Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- Subject: Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:33:42 -0600
On 3/28/04 10:21 PM, "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden> wrote:
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John C. Welch wrote [3/28/04 2:18 PM]:
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> You can make two assumptions here...one, that they'll use the default
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> protocol name as specified in the documentation, and two, that there's a
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> large number of users won't change their hard drive name from the default.
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Oy!
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John Welch, your stories are not about Missing Link at all, but about stupid
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people. That, unfortunately, none of us can help.
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So, in the case of completely ridiculous people, given statistically
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improbable events all coming to bear on the same moron, I agree with John
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Welch -- there is nothing that can be done to prevent stupid people from
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being stupid.
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And that is not a security issue. It's a hiring issue.
Excuse me?
That's not being stupid. That's following the documentation. Do you change
ever single default setting on everything you use? Of course not. There's no
reason, barring a non-existant security warning, to change the protocol. In
any event, that's security by obscurity, and *anyone* with a clue will tell
you, that's not secure at all. That's blind luck.
I fail to understand this visceral refusal to acknowlege that while a really
good idea, the current implementation of Missing Link has real security
issues. Is the Mac community THAT bizarrely in denial as to think that
changing a protocol name makes you immune?
john
--
Just because you can stick toothpicks in your forehead and they9ll stay
there and it doesn9t really hurt all that bad doesn9t mean you should go
ahead and do it, at Denny9s or any other restaurant.
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