"Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I stab my eye with a spoon".
"Don't do it then. ".
This hasn't crashed any Mac except those who read the article and had to try it out.
Well, sure... but I can't help but wonder what the comments would look like if the article was "Bug found that instantly crashes any Windows 8 App". We'd all be laughing at how bad Microsoft QC is and "that's why I have a Mac" and how glad we were that we weren't "at risk" and all that jazz.
Instead we're all here saying "oh, no big deal" and "Hey cool, it works on my machine too!"
That was soooo on the money......Well, sure... but I can't help but wonder what the comments would look like if the article was "Bug found that instantly crashes any Windows 8 App". We'd all be laughing at how bad Microsoft QC is and "that's why I have a Mac" and how glad we were that we weren't "at risk" and all that jazz.
Instead we're all here saying "oh, no big deal" and "Hey cool, it works on my machine too!"
Well I seem to to be immune. File:///
Can type away to my hearts content um.. not that I would ever need to
UK
Mac Pro 2008
10.8.2
Standard setup apart from a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 2048 MB ( Hacked Rom PC )
I wonder if it's Country / Ascii related?
Well I seem to to be immune. File:///
Can type away to my hearts content um.. not that I would ever need to
UK
Mac Pro 2008
10.8.2
Standard setup apart from a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 2048 MB ( Hacked Rom PC )
I wonder if it's Country / Ascii related?
Well, sure... but I can't help but wonder what the comments would look like if the article was "Bug found that instantly crashes any Windows 8 App". We'd all be laughing at how bad Microsoft QC is and "that's why I have a Mac" and how glad we were that we weren't "at risk" and all that jazz.
Instead we're all here saying "oh, no big deal" and "Hey cool, it works on my machine too!"
I just changed my user password to 'File:///' (without the quotes). I'm screwed.
Nah, just pause before typing the final / and you'll be fine.
If I download malicious software from you (also known as a "Trojan") that can send AppleScript to type text into an app to crash it, then the same software can very easily send AppleScript to the Finder to delete all my documents, or send AppleScript to Mail to mail my documents to some server, and so on. One thing it can do is to send a "Quit" command to each running application via AppleScript. The insecure operation is downloading untrusted software.
"Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I stab my eye with a spoon".
"Don't do it then. ".
This hasn't crashed any Mac except those who read the article and had to try it out.
But I added a subroutine that requires that the text be entered within a certain very short time window.
It's not a bug, it's an undocumented featureNot a bug, it is a feature!