Sane questions to ask before installing new software

I am dabbling in the world of Twitter, after resisting it for some time. The folks at Twitter offer several different ways to update -- and I've been mostly using Google Chat to do it. It's pretty slick - I can get updates from other people and send updated to my own account simply by messaging the Twitter user.

However, there are also clients out there for Twitter, and one popular one seems to be Twhirl, built on Adobe Air. Cool new web technology I guess.

I don't think I'm being paranoid by being annoyed by the warnings that comes through at installation. The Publisher is UNKNOWN and the level of system access is UNRESTRICTED. What a great combo! Sorry, but I think I'll stick with my instant message updating, or look for another client.

1) Why does Twhirl require unrestricted access to my computer?
2) What does it take to be listed as a known publisher to install the application?

Honestly I care less about 2 than 1. Anyone know any good Twitter clients?

The Remedy of Adoption

The salvation that the New Testament describes has many aspects to it: conversion, sanctification, justification, sanctification, etc. Justification remedies our condemnation before God. Regeneration overcomes our spiritual death. Our sanctification relieves our contamination by sin. Although the Bible makes clear that God cares greatly about orphans, this is not the family-relational problem that the New Testament emphasizes: sinners are slaves in bondage. A believer is “no longer a slave, but a son.” (Galatians 4:7) Adoption brings sinners from the status of slave to the status of son.

This is part of the paper I am working on now and the above comes very directly from Adopted by God, Robert Peterson (29)

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
-1 John 3:1

Calvin and Luther on Freedom

We temper our freedom for the weakness of ignorant believers, but not for the rigour of the Pharisees.
-Calvin

A Christian is a free lord of all, subject to none: a Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all.
-Luther

Source: Children of the Living God, Sinclair Ferguson (103)