Re: [WinMac] making a mac cd-rom

Welch, John C.(jwelch[at]aer.com)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:32:08 -0500

You can do as much damage with file buddy as well. That's like saying that
if the user has a gun the can shoot the silly thing. My POINT was, there are
things that are just entirely too easy to casually do in windows that are
much harder to do on a Mac. Not *impossible*, just harder.

> From: "Daniel L. Schwartz" <expresso@snip.net>
> Reply-To: winmac@lists.best.com
> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:58:56 -0500
> To: winmac@lists.best.com
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] making a mac cd-rom
>
>
> Uhh, John...
>
> What about loose rsrc files floating around? If ResEdit is on the machine,
> they can do a Lot of damage Really Quick.
>
> At 01:36 PM 12/22/99 -0500, JW wrote:
>> well, my major point is, is that by making macros a subset of VB, any moron
>> with 3 functional brain cells *should* have seen the potential for abuse. If
>> windows didn't ALLOW you to format the current boot disk, or bypass
>> user-specified security options, a lot of this problem wouldn't exist.
>>
>> BTW...this is one of the reasons you don't see applescript virii...there are
>> things you just can't do in the MacOS without entering *some* sort of
>> password at least once.
>>
>> john
>>
>
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