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Originally posted by PlusFan
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Originally posted by PlusFan
Ok then, here's something better: A 'test team' People who know VBscript very well and have time left (read: have no life) they could then test scripts and put it in a database viewable from the website. AND: Plus says: This Add-on is approved by the add-on testing team. It is rated xx% Or: This script is not approved by the testing team. It is not secure to download it!! Or: This script was prooved to be NOT SECURE!! do NOT download it!!
gr8 Idea right?
Sorry for Quoting myself, but I think this really is the best solution
In an ideal world, all scripts would undergo this process... unfortunetly, finding enough people with time enough to trawl through the innumerable (as I'm sure this will be a
very popular feature) scripts that pop up could be a problem...
But this whole idea of script security's got me interested... I might do some reasearch into digital certificates and how they work; see if I can't get a better perspective on all this. I was just wondering how many people reading this thread are actually programmers?
Whatever it comes down to... maybe Plus! should simply disallow script files to be sent to other users... I mean, that would solve the self-replication problem pretty quickly... (you would, of course, need to set it up so that scripts couldn't simply copy themselves to another file and then send it... perhaps place read AND write locks on the file so it can't be read BY the script itself so it can replicate, then disallow anything in your Plus\Scripts directory to be sent...)