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Authored by: lstewart on Nov 19, '03 11:26:00AM
To the critics of the pkg installer, it may be worth noting that unlike most packages I've encountered, this one did NOT ask me for an administrator password before running. I assume this is because it did not need to touch anything outside my Applications folder.

An installer package may or may not ask for an administrator password. If it does, and you give it one, then you've basically given it free reign/carte blanche to do anything on your hard drive. But if it doesn't ask for a password, how dangerous is it really?

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Authored by: osxpounder on Nov 21, '03 02:18:43PM

That's a good question, and I wish I knew the answer. I also wonder, speaking of permitting scripts to run on one's Mac, whether it's safe to use Safari, given that there's now a way to run AppleScript from a URL. I don't know the details of that -- which I suppose is why it scares me.

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