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Weblog:   Attack of the malicious widgets
Subject:   Some lessons must be learned the hard way
Date:   2005-05-10 21:37:18
From:   eberharda
When windows hackers on their $300 Mac Mini's get wind of this, they're going to have a field day creating the PERCEPTION that the Mac isn't as secure as it's been cracked up to be. Apparently Apple learned nothing from Microsoft's sorry trip down ActiveX lane. I completely agree with the author: incredibly simplified dialog boxes are no solution. In fact, in my opinion, the very existence of such a dialog tells me the widget shouldn't have been installed automatically. Couldn’t Apple have said only “safe” widgets get auto installed? More complexity, oh good. Finally, I agree that on a platform which professes to be “the computer for the rest of us,” expecting users to do literally anything more than use the software EXACTLY as it was shipped in order to maintain the PERCEPTION that their computer is safe is pure folly.