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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. What about burning iso discs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When are they going to release a patch so you can burn hybrid cd's like you could in 10.0?

    1. Re:What about burning iso discs? by foo12 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Hopefully it's an honest, "Well shit!" error on Apple's part rather than intentionally stripping a feature --- they did redo the dialog that pops-up upon insertion of a blank optical volume.

      You [b]should[b] be able to regain the functionality in the interim by nabbing 'mkisofs' out of the Darwin tree and building a little AppleScript Studio app around it. mkisofs will write a ISO9660/HFS+ hybrid file system as a UDIF --- if I remember the manpage properly.

    2. 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 .... :-)

      --
      Alison

      "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

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

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

  3. 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.

  4. before you complain about the patch by Leimy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) CDs were probably burned way before yesterday when you got OS X.
    2) The use of Open Sourced technology makes it somewhat easier to find bugs and patch them.
    3) Someone found a bug ... most likely after the CDs were declared to have a "golden image". Companies have a hard time changing deadlines and Apple was not only "on time" with this product but "ahead of schedule" [sure you could say that you want them to wait till they get it right but think of the scheduling costs of all those "100 minutes of OS X" presentations which would have to be moved]

    They patched it immediately. All you had to do was start the software update program. The only thing I would have recommended differently is maybe some sheet of paper in the box saying to run Software Update manually to get the update or a notice on www.apple.com about it.

    1. Re:before you complain about the patch by mkoz · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Actually apple does one better (at least my new installation did).

      Software Update ran automatically right after I installed 10.2.

      So I got the update within about 2 minutes of installing 10.2.

  5. 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.