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Apple Updates Safari for Improved SSL Authentication

Posted by pudge on from the i-am-gonna-take-you-surfin-with-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Safari upate is available from Apple on Software Update. This updates to Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v74)." Says Apple, "This update is recommended for all Safari users and improves how Safari validates the authenticity of websites that use SSL certificates."

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  1. At least Apple is up on these things... by MrTangent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft seems to twiddle their thumbs when security issues are found. Apple has been pretty good with security issues, even in their beta software like Safari.

    1. Re:At least Apple is up on these things... by Smurf · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Let's see. The original post from MrTangent says:
      Microsoft seems to twiddle their thumbs when security issues are found. Apple has been pretty good with security issues, even in their beta software like Safari.
      His second post says:
      However, it's refreshing that Apple doesn't release security updates every week like Microsoft. That shows that their products are generally more secure.
      I don't see why you imply that he said:
      "It's good that Apple releases more security updates than Microsoft."
      Therefore I don't see the "whoosh". The first post says that Apple's security bug fixes are fast. The second one, that they are not needed as frequently as for Windows. Those are two separate but non-exclusive ideas. You may not agree with him, but he doesn't contradict himself.
  2. Re:Whoo hoo! by Virus1984 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually for the fraction of users who load apple.slashdot.org this is "stuff that matters". It's a section meant to be read by Mac users (read: potential Safari users)...see ?

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  3. No problem by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's okay. It's still pretty trivial, unworthy-of-Slashdot news.

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  4. Re:OT-INIT 1984? by FunkyMarcus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've had . in my path for many years, and wouldn't do without it. It's at the end of my path, so there's no way you're going to spoof my "cat". It's only those who have . at the beginning of their path that get screwed.

    Oh, you've never accidentally run a chomd, or maybe l s-l?

    (Ouch, those hurt to type.)

    Mark

  5. Re:Whoo hoo indeed! by davesag · · Score: 2, Insightful
    5% of computer users maybe, but 95% of apple.slashdot.org readers surely.

    a thought - by computer users do you also include computers that use computers, or do you only mean people who use computers?

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  6. Re:Perhaps there's something you're missing indeed by gerardrj · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The user notes that he knows about that preference of not loading images.

    What is missing in Safari is the ability to manually load individual images when you have images set to not load.

    Apparenlty MSIE has this feature, I know iCab has it (along with a lot of other's I'd like to see in Safari).

    When images aren't loaded, you can right-click (cmd-click) on the image placeholder and choose something like "load image", and only that image will be loaded. In iCab this is especially useful, as sometimes your image filtering rules cause a useful image to not load. That's the price I pay for not being forced to load all those damned flashy GIFs and springy FLASH animations though.

    I'm sure this will make it in to Safari at some point, perhaps the initial non-beta release. While we're at it, I'd like a way to disable the "You seem to be looking for something" dialog when you click the "back" button more than few times. So many of the site's don't change their page titles, and going back one-by-one is the only way to locate the content again without page previews.

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  7. Re:Security-shmecurity--still needs this feature.. by Phroggy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As much as I'd like to say 'buh-bye' to Internet Exploiter I simply can't, at least not at home.

    Um, Safari is hardly the only non-MSIE browser available for Mac OS X. Try Camino, or Mozilla, or OmniWeb, or iCab.

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