Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!ellis.uchicago.edu!dwal From: dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Resedit and FileGuard Message-ID: <1990Aug2.164635.6825@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 2 Aug 90 16:46:35 GMT References: <43434@apple.Apple.COM> <1938@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: U. Chicago Computing Organizations, Academic and Public Comp. Lines: 38 In article <1938@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes: >>In article jg23+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Gray) writes: >>Hi, I have a real big problem. I got FileGuard 2 month ago and now I found >>that resedit is able to delete every resource in FileGuard, which makes >>FileGuard >>useless because it's a security software. Is there a way I can make it so >>resedit is unable to delete the resources in FileGuard? > >You could lock the file, but a ResEdit user could change that. A more >important question, so far as I'm concerned, is: > > -Why in the world is ResEdit openly available on a supposedly "secure" > machine? RessEdit can be used to effectively gut _any_ software on the > Mac. > > >-- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > "Must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think..." > - Flaming Carrot >clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone I don't think he actually said that ResEdit was available on the machines (although I don't have the original message anymore, so I could be wrong). In any case, lots of people have ResEdit who haven't bought it, aren't programmers, and for the most part don't really know what it's used for; they do know how to use it to do things like muck around with the Finder information. Just because it's not publicly available at this guy's site with a sign saying "Copy me" doesn't mean that people can't get copies of it. And, as you said, folks who do know how to use it can then use it to gut _any_ software on any Macintosh they please. -- David Walton Internet: dwal@midway.uchicago.edu University of Chicago { Any opinions found herein are mine, not } Computing Organizations { those of my employers (or anybody else). }