Re: "help" URLs
Re: "help" URLs
- Subject: Re: "help" URLs
- From: "R. Tony Goold" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:26:32 -0400
It's just a note that people shouldn't click on AppleScript links in
files from an unknown source (some freeware app's help for example).
If you want to trash someone's system with your freeware, why leave it up
to your help-related scripts? You can do it directly from your freeware
app! I've never seen an authentication dialog pop up while viewing help,
so I know Help Viewer isn't sudo-ing to gain more privileges than are
granted to the rest of the stuff I run, including whatever freeware app in
question.
Let's at least be reasonable in picking our issues with the Help Viewer.
If an AppleScript is already on the hard drive, it means the user has
invited it onto their system or it was placed there by some other program
that was invited onto their system. Running local AppleScript files from
Help Viewer poses no greater security risk I know of than the user poses
to themselves just by being there.
Cheers,
R. Tony Goold