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Re: Installer UI advices
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Graham J Lee |
Subject: |
Re: Installer UI advices |
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Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:29:57 +0000 |
On 15 Mar 2005, at 09:24, Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 15.03.2005 um 03:23 schrieb M. Uli Kusterer:
Slowdowns are the least of my worries. Security is more of an issue.
I don't think an application that has just been downloaded but not
launched should be scanned. Otherwise it'd be the equivalent of
AutoStart ... :-o
There's a little difference between scanning a bundle for what it
contains and actually executing something. :-)
You are right, this has to be done carefully to not allow execution of
unwanted code. You don't want to get this unknown app over there in
the net to be used when you double-click a commonly known document.
It's similar to setting the PATH variable mindfully.
Aqua currently has a dialogue saying "Opening the file will cause the
application [...] to be launched for the first time, are you *REALLY*
*REALLY* sure you want me to do this?" or words to that effect. I
think that's a good compromise between automatic availability of new
apps and security. So is failing to honour setuid on removable media,
but that's an OS/FS issue :-)
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Graham Lee GPG Key ID: 01D5B9D8
UNIX Systems Manager, Oxford Physics Practical Course
Coordinator, UKUUG Apple SIG
(http://lists.ukuug.org/mailman/listinfo/apple-sig)
Technical bod, Oxford Mac Users' Group (http://www.oxmug.org)
- Re: Installer UI advices, (continued)
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/14
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/11
- Re: Installer UI advices, Markus Hitter, 2005/03/12
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/14
- Re: Installer UI advices, Jesse Ross, 2005/03/14
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/14
- Re: Installer UI advices, Quentin Mathé, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, Markus Hitter, 2005/03/14
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/14
- Re: Installer UI advices, Markus Hitter, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices,
Graham J Lee <=
- Re: Installer UI advices, Jesse Ross, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, Quentin Mathé, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, Jonathan Isom, 2005/03/14
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/14
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- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, Quentin Mathé, 2005/03/15
- Re: Installer UI advices, Benoit, 2005/03/16
- Re: Installer UI advices, M. Uli Kusterer, 2005/03/16
- Re: Installer UI advices, Frederico Muñoz, 2005/03/16