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shavano
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Re: Widget Security

said by jDyno See Profile:

But it doesn't really tell you that it may be a security risk

that's just not a practical security paradigm.

Even if everyone did have the discipline ... you can't expect everyone to have the knowledge to know what to look for.

I am of the opinion that the security of Dashboard Widgets (and Automator actions) needs to be addressed by Apple ASAP.
Exactly!

I just took a few minutes this morning to see what it might take for me to write my own. I saw the note on the Apple page about system commands and looked inside a couple of widgets.

My immediate reaction was "holy sh*t!!!!!".

Though not a professional developer, I'm reasonably competent at the Unix command line and have done some HTML and C programs. And I immediately knew they will easily be so complex there is no chance I would be able to tell if a widget was going to do something malicious.
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