Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- Subject: Re: AppleScript & HTML Again...
- From: Nigel Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:23:53 +0000
On 29/3/04 8:29, "Michael Terry" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Although you don't seem to see it this way, security, just like
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anything else, is a matter of risk versus reward. People will tend to
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balance their lives such that their attention to security maximizes
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their productivity and happiness. This will usually be far, far less
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attention than a system administrator pays security, for good reason.
And isn't this the major sticking point for this thread? Both John & I seem
to be looking at Missing Link with our sysadmin hats on. We can see real
benefits to the idea -- for a lot of my users, going to a web page and
clicking a link to download a script, then another link to run that script,
is a lot more painless than connecting to a fileserver. After all, they
browse the web every hour they are at work, but many of them only connect to
a fileserver once a month and even then they get it wrong...
But the very benefits of ML make me, for one, wary of deploying it. Until I
get the time to test it fully, I *have* to assume the worst. And the worst
is that someone could unknowingly download NastyAp(tm), trigger it and
delete horrible amounts of work.
If it was just me I wouldn't worry a tenth as much -- the benefits probably
outweigh the risks, I could change the protocol and other defaults to "hide"
my apps and make it next to impossible for a hacker. But that customisation
suddenly makes it a lot less useful in my working environment.
Please, people. Most of us seem to think ML is a good idea. Let's try and
help Peter to make it an even *better* idea...
Nigel
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