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Apple Addresses URI Handler Issues

Posted by pudge on from the hooray dept.

das writes "Apple released Security Update 2004-06-07 via Software Update. From the brief description: 'Security Update 2004-06-07 delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users. [...] Mac OS X will now present an approval alert when an application is to be run for the first time either by opening a document or clicking on a URL related to the application.'" This also fixes some related security problems with Terminal.app, Safari, and DiskImageMounter. No word in given regarding how the average user should know whether or not to approve the request.

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  1. Re:No word? by pudge · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the other hand, if a user is innocently visiting a web site and a dialog box all of a sudden appears prompting the user to accept that *an application* be run, I think it's pretty clear that this handles the issue.

    You think much more highly of the average user than I do.

  2. How will they know? by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny
    With a non-descriptive name like EvilWare, how is anyone going to know if it is ok or not?

    Yes, I was just about to hit SubmitStory, and yes, I'm still bitter. ;P

    1. Re:How will they know? by jimbolaya · · Score: 4, Funny

      Notice that the name of the application in the image has been changed. Apple had to stop using the name "EvilWare" because that product is trademarked by Microsoft.

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  3. Doesn't break Paranoid Android by teamhasnoi · · Score: 4, Funny
    I've just confirmed that Paranoid Android still works, and hollers about the exploit before Apple's fix.

    What that means, I don't know. I'm an Apple user. Hold me.

  4. Re:No word? by Black+Art · · Score: 2, Funny
    Research shows that when a user is exposed to such a dialog they get confused and pick a random option.

    And here I thought that only trademark lawyers were that easily confused...

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  5. Dang it! by inertia187 · · Score: 4, Funny
    These stupid updates are ruining my laptop's uptime.
    uniblab:~ anthony$ uptime
    16:31 up 12 days, 2 hrs, 1 user, load averages: 0.80 1.32 1.47
    uniblab:~ anthony$
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  6. Re:No word? by shendart · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forget that we're not talking about the average user, but rather the average APPLE user.

    Everyone knows that we're taller, more attractive, more aromatically enticing, (prone to verbose grammer), and more intelligent than the average computer user.

  7. ill-formed people by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know. Those hunchbacks are always cracking my system.

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