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Huge security hole in Internet Explorer for MacOS
Posted by CmdrTaco on 22:30 02 October 2001
from the now-thats-really-funny dept.
Brad Lucier writes "Macintouch is reporting that Internet Explorer 5.1, which comes preinstalled on MacOS X 10.1, has a huge security hole---when it downloads arbitrary programs encoded in the Macintosh's standard BinHex (.hqx) format, it automatically executes them. " Well I guess thats one way to make Unix insecure. Can anyone actually confirm this since it looks kinda sketchy. I wonder what someone's rationale would be for that:"Oh this won't hurt anyone, and saving that extra 'OK' click will be great!".
Greetz,
.anerki

Huge security hole in Internet Explorer for MacOS
Posted by CmdrTaco on 22:30 02 October 2001
from the now-thats-really-funny dept.
Brad Lucier writes "Macintouch is reporting that Internet Explorer 5.1, which comes preinstalled on MacOS X 10.1, has a huge security hole---when it downloads arbitrary programs encoded in the Macintosh's standard BinHex (.hqx) format, it automatically executes them. " Well I guess thats one way to make Unix insecure. Can anyone actually confirm this since it looks kinda sketchy. I wonder what someone's rationale would be for that:"Oh this won't hurt anyone, and saving that extra 'OK' click will be great!".
Greetz,
.anerki