{"id":2698,"date":"2010-08-11T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2022-07-14T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:04:14","slug":"dont-auto-update-safari-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/dont-auto-update-safari-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&rsquo;t Auto-Update Safari Extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lexfriedman.com\/post\/932156833\/be-careful-with-your-safari-extensions-and-turn-off\">Lex Friedman<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2010\/08\/11\/friedman-ext\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.lexfriedman.com\/post\/932156833\/be-careful-with-your-safari-extensions-and-turn-off\"><p>Thus, the mythical A Decidedly Un-Evil Extension, which could provide the definition of any word you double-clicked on, could seem noble and safe. After a few months of swelling popularity, the extension&rsquo;s nefarious creator could update the extension with &lt;iframe&gt; evilness, and start gathering personal information about you, from the webpages you visit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With auto-updating, you probably wouldn&rsquo;t know that the extension had been updated. Even with manual updating, you have no way of knowing whether the new version has been vetted for security.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lex Friedman (via John Gruber): Thus, the mythical A Decidedly Un-Evil Extension, which could provide the definition of any word you double-clicked on, could seem noble and safe. After a few months of swelling popularity, the extension&rsquo;s nefarious creator could update the extension with &lt;iframe&gt; evilness, and start gathering personal information about you, from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-07-14T19:04:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"c079d33c-584c-4be3-82bd-ed220684b6c2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-07-14T19:04:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwHnTPFhMS-OCve0iBoS2wg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-safari-extensions"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}