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Apple Releases Security Update for Jaguar

Posted by pudge on from the yummy-for-my-secure-tummy dept.

yoshiaki writes "Mac OS X Security Update 2002-08-23 includes updated components (OpenSSL, Security, & SunRPC) for Mac OS X 10.2, which provide increased security to prevent unauthorized access to applications, servers, and the operating system. Mac OS X Security Update 2002-08-23 is available at the Apple Knowledge Base." This appears to me to be similar to the update of a few days ago, but for 10.2 instead of 10.1.

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  1. Re:Confused by digiplant · · Score: 3, Informative

    The patch was available yesterday before you were officially allowed to buy jaguar.

  2. It still does, it just doesn't tell you by ClaraBow · · Score: 4, Informative

    It writes CDFS discs that can be read by windows 95 and up. Try it, it works! Now you don't have to worry about different formats anymore.

    1. Re:It still does, it just doesn't tell you by ClaraBow · · Score: 2, Informative

      Here is information on CDFS :http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/ Windows can mount this file systems, and so does Linux. Just burn the cd and it should mount on your favorite platform. Try it, then complain, if it doesn't work! Just relax and burn :)

  3. Re:Confused by Blackstealth · · Score: 2, Informative

    The patch was available yesterday before you were officially allowed to buy jaguar

    Unless you pre-ordered your copy from Apple and had it shipped. My copy arrived first thing Friday (23rd) morning and I was pretty surprised to find there was already a software update available...

  4. Re:Confused by foobar104 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can confirm that. I bought a brand new machine yesterday during the Apple Store's "midnight madness" sale. Brought it home and fired it up literally about 90 minutes after Jaguar was officially available for sale. (Well, not counting time zones.) First thing that happened was Software Update popping up and asking if it was okay to download the security update. The download took mere seconds, even on my lowly 768 Kbps DSL line. All in all, pretty professional.

  5. Re:What about burning iso discs? by Draoi · · Score: 3, Informative
    and whether there is any way back to ISO9660 without resorting to Toast.

    Well there's always Discribe - I registered my copy last week. And, yeah, it works just fine on Jag. Now you can burn ISO images, as well as DVD. Kewl .... :-)

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