About Adam Knight
Location
Austin, TX
Home page/site
http://www.hopelessgeek.com/
Author Biography
Adam Knight is one of the founders of Mac Geekery and is a geek at heart. Programmer by day, hacker by night, his daily life revolves around the Macintosh platform, which he has been a user and programmer for since the early days of System 7 when his LCII replaced his Apple //c.
In-between tech jobs, he’s managed to learn the basics of any web hacker: PHP, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Linux, *BSD, and the intricacies of ./configure —prefix=~/bombshelter/. Today, codepoet is concentrating on blogging again, writing some software for the Mac by himself (including Notae) and for his company (such as Photonic) and has a few other toys coming out soon. Bug him over AIM or email [link fixed].
Further to what you were saying on your podcast, I came across a list of "badly behaved" apps that need read/write access to directories outside the user's home area. Here it is:
poorly made apps
I thought at first that it might be quite old - because some of the other material on the site looked to be quite old - and that maybe some of these applications had been fixed. Then I saw that the page is dated as revised on 2006-05-25.
I found it quite by chance, only today, because I was reading about Radmind and that page had a link entitled "crappy apps" to an article that the list is a subsection of.
I just had to have a look with a name like that.
Considering these ISVs shouldn't be doing this, it's a rather big list, isn't it?
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