jDyno
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| Re: Widget Security But it doesn't really tell you that it may be a security risk or that it accesses private system stuff. It just asks permission to run for the first time.
Also, no such warning exists when a widget needs Net access.
Yes, apps exist to monitor net traffic, and of course one is SUPPOSED to scan everything you put on your computer, but that's just not a practical security paradigm.
Even if everyone did have the discipline to check for security risks in every Widget (or any other thing they put on their machine), you can't expect everyone to have the knowledge to know what to look for. Hell, I'm a developer and I wouldn't be able to spot everything - probably even if I knew it was there.
And no, these do no more than any other Applescript could do, but Widgets and Automator actions will be used and downloaded many hundreds of thousand of more times than Applescript just by the very fact in how they are now more built-in adn accessible by the everyday user.
I am of the opinion that the security of Dashboard Widgets (and Automator actions) needs to be addressed by Apple ASAP.
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