Re: [OT] When will Apple learn?
Re: [OT] When will Apple learn?
- Subject: Re: [OT] When will Apple learn?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:19:51 -0500
On 5/9/05 12:08, "Stephen Jonke" <email@hidden> 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?
Are you sure it's a .sit file? Are you sure that's all it's doing? You don't
know.
PDFs can carry embedded code, how safe are they? You don't know until you
run it unless you examine every pdf in detail.
What's that widget really do? You don't know until you run it.
It takes exactly two clicks to manually run any file you download, since you
can do this from the download manager window. Running downloaded files
automatically, (for that's what you're doing when you open them) is
dangerous.
--
There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the
credit.
-General George C. Marshall
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Applescript-users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden