Security Concern: Mac OS X Time Machine runs deleted applications

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Nov 1, 2007 11:02 PM EDT

Article Source: pyile.com

technology, apple, os-x, mac-os-x, time-machine, steven-fisher

Imagine that you trash an application because of a security flaw. Say, it handles the URL type foofoo, and is proven to be a security risk. But the developer won't fix it (or hasn't fixed it yet), so you've removed the application from your hard drive to keep yourself safe.

It doesn't work that way — you're not safe. Time machine has made a copy in your time machine backup that Mac OS X will cheerfully launch without a warning.