Re: Weather Dashboard Widget

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Weather Dashboard Widget
Date: 04:38 on 21 May 2005
> However, the Safari auto-download bug (which is, admittedly, fixed in 
> 10.4.1)

It is NOT fixed in 10.4.1. The bug is that "open safe files after
downloading" is an option at all. The fix is to remove that capability,
not to have it pop up a dialog box saying "I'm about to do something that's
almost always what you want me to do, and you're used to clicking YES when
it comes up, quick, quick, what do you want me to do, YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING
ELSE until you choose!" And anyone who's had to support Windows users knows
that some people WILL choose YES over and over again... and serve as a
constant pool of infected machines.

Hateful bastard software. I expect that from Microsoft. It ticks me off
when it comes from anyone else.

> is compounded by the fact that user-domain widgets can 
> impersonate, and will get run instead of, system-domain ones, 

Yeh, I know. That wouldn't be a problem at all if Safari wasn't messed up.

> whereas, say, ~/Applications/iTunes.app isn't going to fool anyone.

No, but ~/Library/Screen Savers/RandomSaver will still show, up and if you
even preview it you've given it local application access.

There's stuff above here

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