Re: Launch Services info (was "Re: Auto-Remove .DS_Store Files?")
Re: Launch Services info (was "Re: Auto-Remove .DS_Store Files?")
- Subject: Re: Launch Services info (was "Re: Auto-Remove .DS_Store Files?")
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:03:36 -0500
- Thread-topic: Launch Services info (was "Re: Auto-Remove .DS_Store Files?")
On 8/1/06 11:49, "Laine Lee" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Not really. If you see the name(s) you expect to see, then it's all good.
>> It's for when you get people playing games and you open a jpeg and see
>> Terminal that you'd get puzzled and rightly so.
>>
>
>> It's designed to alert you to an application you DON'T expect to see.
>> However, there's no "you know what I mean" frameworks, so it's a bit of a
>> verbose option.
>
> The first time launch alert routine is almost entirely inadequate for
> protection against this vulnerability. As pointed out already, the alert
> only occurs the first time the application in question is opened. If you've
> already launched Terminal for whatever reason, a sinister jpeg impostor can
> successfully trigger its launch it at any time without your being able to
> prevent it.
When did I say it was perfect? I didn't.
however, there's no way, short of completely disabling opening a document
via direct double-click to completely protect against "the wrong
application", because there's no way to say that <app> should NEVER open
<file> or even the other way 'round.
--
Just because one of those made you feel nice and two of em made you feel
even better, taking the whole bottle will not exponentially increase your
good time. In fact, you may get dizzy, or throw up, or end up spending half
of the next day wondering where the hell your pants are. Or die.
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