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Authored by: sjmills on May 13, '04 12:01:56AM
Remove the feature that permits AppleScript to make files uneditable. Let us always be able to see AppleScript code.

There are many people and companies that make money writing AppleScript scripts, and they protect their investment by only giving the customer a run-only version of the script. Taking that away would be a very bad thing.

The other thing to consider is that a huge percentage of computer users these days are not smart enough to know that they could try opening a downloaded file with Script Editor to see if it's a malicious script. The only people that are going to do that are smart enough to open run-only scripts with a resource editor and look at the 4-char codes and text values to see what the script is doing.

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Authored by: l-i-n-k on May 13, '04 04:24:21AM

Saving to uneditable Applescripts could be combined with a trusting mechanism:

Either
the user accepts the execution of an uneditable Script (because he trusts the source of the file)
OR
the Applescript has to be certified (signed) by someone (eg. Apple)



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