Unrestricted access

I dunno about you, but I get a little twitchy about installers that expect to have “Unrestricted access” to the rest of my computer’s system.

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Paul Mison

Posted April 21, 2008 at 10:53 am | Permalink

If that was a standard desktop app, and not built with Adobe AIR, installing it would give it unrestricted system access, but you wouldn’t get a warning about it. Yet you’ve probably dragged apps from DMGs and run them without thinking too hard about it - I certainly do. Hmmm.
gilest

Posted April 21, 2008 at 11:11 am | Permalink

Yeah, I found myself thinking the same thing shortly after posting this. I’m just being overly paranoid, I suppose.
Paul Mison

Posted April 21, 2008 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

Well, it’s still an interesting observation. If you had to agree every time you installed any app, maybe you’d think more about it. Software authors might be encouraged to declare exactly what they’re going to do. Another part of that dialog box, code signing, is certainly coming to the Mac OS X (it’s already enabled, but not enforced, in 10.5). Maybe the desktop-integration web apps are actually leading the way?

gilest