[jnarcus]

That has never been the claim. The claim has always been that people who spend time on their Apple computers tend to be more civilized than the hacking crowd ensconced on other systems. Also it could not have happened prior to Apple moving to a Unix based kernel with an open architecture. It still only points to the need for one to pay attention to what one opens no matter what system they use

[B Knotts]

Also it could not have happened prior to Apple moving to a Unix based kernel with an open architecture.

Huh?

Sure it could. This is just an exploit of user ignorance regarding resource forks and file extensions. You could have created the same exploit on previous versions of Mac OS. The chief difference is that, under older versions of Mac OS, this exploit would have toasted the whole system, instead of just your personal files.

[B Knotts]

Actually, let me rephrase that...it's not really user ignorance...it's kind of an inherent weakness of resource forks. Since the resource fork is kind of a "black box," it allows for situations like this, since you can just take any file, and stick in an AAPL creator code with whatever icon you like, apparently.

This is not all that much unlike the "hidden file extension" problem on Windows.

That said, I like the idea of resource forks/extended attributes. There just needs to be some tweaking of the concept to prevent tricks like this.

[DB]

"The claim has always been that people who spend time on their Apple computers tend to be more civilized..."

Classic.