Re: System Preference/Security & Privacy "Feature"
Re: System Preference/Security & Privacy "Feature"
- Subject: Re: System Preference/Security & Privacy "Feature"
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:49:55 -0600
- Z-usanet-msgid: XID682TcCwx54624X33
> On Mar 29, 2015, at 4:34:PM, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 30 Mar 2015, at 12:05 am, Robert Poland <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> To me it’s stupid that I am not allowed to control my own computer.
>
> So your computer gets told to do something potentially dangerous. How does it know that it's from something you wrote and not from some malware?
>
> The only way of handling that is to have some way of designating trusted sources. And if the code of the trusted source changes, how does the computer know you did it, and not some malware?
I find it hard to imagine malware making a change to an Applescript residing on my computer.
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
>
Robert Poland
Fort Collins CO
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