Re: [OT] When will Apple learn?
Re: [OT] When will Apple learn?
- Subject: Re: [OT] When will Apple learn?
- From: Stephen Jonke <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 14:14:42 -0400
On May 9, 2005, at 1:55 PM, has wrote:
Stephen Jonke wrote:
In fact, if you turn off that idiotic "Open Safe Files" option in
Safari,
this isn't a real problem at all.
It may be idiotic, but it sure is convenient, and so far there has
been no real exploit of it, so perhaps it isn't so idiotic after all?
I really can't see the harm in decompressing .sit files
automatically, for instance. What are you going to do after you
download (and don't decompress automatically) a .sit file? Throw it
in the trash? Why did you bother downloading it in the first place
then?
I don't think folk are concerned about any single step so much as the
particular combination. Merely _visiting_ a webpage can automatically
download, unpack and install a widget of unknown providence in a
single fell swoop. (Heck, I was running IE5 on OS10.2 and it still
made me jump!:)
I was not implying that I thought nothing needed to be done with regard
to the automatic widget installation "feature" - on the contrary I
agree completely. I was only responding to the claim that "Open safe
files" was "idiotic" in and of itself and that it was "idiotic" to have
it enabled. It is not.
Steve
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