![]() They can be created by typing a URL in a text editor and dragging the text to the macOS Desktop, if the format and drag-and-drop are supported within the app. If opened in macOS, it will launch the macOS Calculator app.įiLe:////////////////////////System/Applications/Calculator.app Here's what the PoC file, inetloc.inetloc for lack of a better name, looks like. The advisory says Apple told the SSD Disclosure Program that newer versions of macOS, from Big Sur onward, have blocked the file:// prefix with a check in -internet-location. But Apple's engineers evidently failed to consider upper and lower case variations, so alternative renditions of the file handler like File:// or fIle:// still bypass the check. ![]() "As far as we know, at the moment, the vulnerability has not been patched." "We have notified Apple that FiLe:// (just mangling the value) doesn’t appear to be blocked, but have not received any response from them since the report has been made," the advisory says. The Register asked Apple for comment knowing it's futile to do so. Our lack of faith has been vindicated by the lack of response. The free open source web browser Otter – which uses the Chromium browser engine at the heart of Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge – is being ported to OS/2.įor the uninitiated, OS/2 was an operating system that was created by IBM and Microsoft in the mid to late 1980s.įor those keeping score, it's been four months since Apple comms last provided proof of life by responding to a query. The OS was compatible with some Windows drivers, but Windows 3.x did so well that the IBM/Microsoft partnership dissolved in unhappy circumstances in 1992. IBM kept OS/2 alive, and its fourth release was widely regarded as superior to Windows 95 and Windows NT. By the time Big Blue brought it to market, though, Microsoft's dominance had been entrenched. ![]() OS/2 gradually faded from use, making occasional public appearances on Automatic Teller Machines' boot screens to remind the wider public of its existence. Perhaps curiously, it was never open-sourced – The Register understands its presence in military hardware made that move inadvisable.
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