Re: Panther and Firewall API?
Re: Panther and Firewall API?
- Subject: Re: Panther and Firewall API?
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:11:02 +1000
If the security risk is already there, why not make a
clean API so that legitimate applications and installers for those
applications can make things easy for the user.
The problem is with this idea of a "clean API". More importantly, the
UI aspect of that. The current authorization API throws up that
useless "your password is needed again, for the 500th time today. Type
it in blindly, that's a good little lemming". If the firewall API were
to actually say what it was about to change, then that would be a very
useful API. User's could see that they were about to open/close a
particular port, or add a redirect, or whatever else. But, as I
mentioned, the current auth API doesn't set a good precedent.
Wade Tregaskis
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
_______________________________________________
macnetworkprog mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/macnetworkprog
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.