On 3/7/05 2:44 PM, "Lorenzo Perone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I'll be fast enough with a 'killall Camino' or Force Quit
> by the time my favorite fastest browser on Mac OS X has launched and
> opened the url.
> 
> Imho, in a world in which a cookie is a potential privacy
> threat, we should consider the open url feature also one.
> 

While you are quite correct that open url could be used to leak information,
and it is a good instinct to consider how a malware author could abuse it, I
think your concern is misplaced. If I'm a malware author and you're running
my code, every application on the system could disable open url, and I could
leak any information I can access without little snitch ever noticing. (I'm
not criticizing little snitch specifically here, but rather all
process/host/port based "firewalls", on all platforms... They are absolutely
a false sense of security in their common operating configurations if you
can't control which software you are running.)



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