Disabling Unsafe URI Handlers
by Volker Weber
Nils Heeren points me to John Gruber's advice to disable unsafe URI handlers. Thank you, Nils.
Comments
John Gruber's article has been updated, by the way, to include disabling telnet too. (http://daringfireball.net/2004/05/telnet_protocol)
John, 2004-05-22
I disabled a bunch of protocols, including disk, disks, telnet, ssh (and help).
While I believe that the threat is more theoretical, at least for the sites that I visit every day, you can further enhance the security with Paranoid Android. According to Unsanity it would be quite easy for Apple to fix this hole and I assume they will soon do that.
Volker Weber, 2004-05-22
