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A script to prevent damage from rm -rf malware
Authored by: robmorton on May 18, '04 03:31:47PM

I really hope this never happens. If a user has the ability to delete a file, they also need to take responsibility for what is run on their file space. AppleScripts and shell scripts are far too handy to start limiting them because of the potential issues. These issues have existed since AppleScript was created, so I do not see the issue. Sure there was no rm-rf command in OS 9, but you could get around that and did not have to worry about as many pesky permissions getting in the way of really messing up a system.



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