Huge security hole in Internet Explorer for MacOS

Brad Lucier writes "Macintouch is reporting (go down the page a bit) that Internet Explorer 5.1, which comes preinstalled on MacOS X 10.1, has a huge security hole---when it downloads arbitrary programs encoded in the Macintosh's standard BinHex (.hqx) format, it automatically executes them. " Well I guess thats one way to make Unix insecure. Can anyone actually confirm this since it looks kinda sketchy. I wonder what someone's rationale would be for that:"Oh this won't hurt anyone, and saving that extra 'OK' click will be great!".

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i didn't even think it was a bug

[SirSlud]

With MS's history, my friend discovered this three days ago and told me. Both of us assumed since it is an MS product that it was the way it was meant to be. Its such an obvious hole that we didn't even think it was a bug, just terrible and user-un-friendly design (as per the usual MS shit.)