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Re: Panther and Firewall API?
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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?
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