Re: desktop access
Re: desktop access
- Subject: Re: desktop access
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:16:38 -0700
On 3 Apr '08, at 11:59 AM, ilteris kaplan wrote:
Basically if you watch the video you will see that the software
plays with the elements on users screen according to accelerometer
using some physics. I am wondering if we have an access to the
desktop just like that. I am curious to learn how one should go to
create such an application.
I think it puts up a full-screen window, scans the Desktop folder to
find all the items and their xy positions and icons, then draws its
own animation starting from those conditions. (Probably using Box2d or
Chipmunk for the physics.) In short, it's faked. There's certainly no
way you can use system APIs to make the menu bar fall down like that.
I'm also sort of skeptical about their claim that merely inserting
their USB flash-drive installs the virus. I don't think the Mac OS
will automatically run code from a filesystem when it mounts. There
used to be a feature like that back in the classic OS, which was
exploited by several real viruses and then removed.
—Jens
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