[gmpi] Re: low level API - Abstract Factory summary
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:13:10 -0800
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:11:09PM -0500, Ron Kuper wrote:
> I disagree. My registry contains thousands of CLSIDs. Every system
> running Windows on the desktop does too, and they all depend on the
> uniqueness of GUIDs. COM wouldn't work otherwise.
yeah, and have you ever tried to find something in there? the GUID is
useless as information.
> As I'm typing this Mike Berry already posted the question about how
> newbies name plugins. How about malicious developers putting plugins
> under my vendor name tree?
>
> I see the GUID as a kind of unique key, as if every plugin on the planet
> lived in a centralized database.
Nothing will stop a noob or a malicious attacker from re-using your GUID
or your URI.
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