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Leopard Firewall Takes One Step Forward, Three Steps Back

[Lord, Daniel]Daniel Lord - 07:01am Nov 16, 2007 PST
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I don't think Skype should be modifying itself.
That would make tools like Tripwire fail as well (tripwire checksums
binaries and warns you if they change).
No application should modify itself--that's what preferences, plists,
and other data files are for.

Daniel McKinley Lord


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Lewis Butler (apparently) - Nov 17, 2007 5:03 am (#1 Total: 1)  

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Re: Leopard Firewall Takes One Step Forward, Three Steps Back

On 16-Nov-2007, at 07:01, Daniel Lord wrote:
> I don't think Skype should be modifying itself.

Skype does a lot of things wrong. It doesn't use the keychain, for
example.



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