{"id":7867,"date":"2013-09-14T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T01:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2013-09-14T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T01:38:39","slug":"parallels-desktop-9-and-parallels-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/14\/parallels-desktop-9-and-parallels-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallels Desktop 9 and Parallels Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/09\/11\/parallels_trojan_access_update_brouhaha\/\">John Leyden<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/pipermail\/tidbits-talk\/2013-September\/015244.html\">Roger Henriques<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/09\/11\/parallels_trojan_access_update_brouhaha\/\">\n<p>The release of Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac, the latest version of the virtual-machine software that allows users to run Windows apps on a Mac computer (among other things) was accompanied by <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.parallels.com\/showthread.php?290837-Trojan\">howls of discontent<\/a> from several people on Parallels&rsquo; user forum. The complaints centered on the <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.parallels.com\/116794\">automatic and silent install<\/a> of Access trial software. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/products\/access\">Access<\/a> allows Windows and Mac apps to be run from an iPad fondleslab.<\/p>\n<p>Complaints arose because the software was installed to users&rsquo; system without their consent, using a saved admin password that punters were not asked to re-enter. Worse yet, the desktop client launched Access without informed consent, signing into an external server in the process: a range of behaviours that allowed the more vociferous critics to compare the technology to a trojan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Leyden (via Roger Henriques): The release of Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac, the latest version of the virtual-machine software that allows users to run Windows apps on a Mac computer (among other things) was accompanied by howls of discontent from several people on Parallels&rsquo; user forum. The complaints centered on the automatic and silent [&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":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","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":[30,32,565],"class_list":["post-7867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-parallels"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867","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=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}