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The difference between what CBS reporters did in their college newspapers and what bloggers do is thet bloggers get feedback, and (unless they're control freaks) you can watch that too...

Something I wrote about this 5 years ago...

Nice.

Linked.

For SCO to now claim that IBM's counterclaim for noninfringement is introducing alien claims into what they now wish to describe as a case about contracts is difficult to sustain, because the Internet exists.

Hooray for the the Crazy Yenta Gossip Line!

Apple's fix seems to be much the same kind of whitewash as most of Microsoft's have been...

Another Open Letter to Apple

The dialog that apple provides doesn't do anything to protect the user, because the problem is not that you're launching an application through a URI, but how it's being launched and from where it's being launched. Also, the dialog isn't called for Apple's own tools.

As proof of the ineffectiveness, if this had been in place when the "help:" hole was discovered, it wouldn't have triggered: it's Apple's own tool!

I am not installing this update, because it interferes with Paranoid Android, which actually DOES propvide some protection.

More info on my page:

http://www.scarydevil.com/~peter/io/apple.html

Harlan Ellison versus the Crazy Yenta Gossip Line.