Apple to Fix Security Holes in Jaguar

Simon Cozens writes "Yesterday's unsubstantiated report that Apple is refusing to supply security upgrades to Jaguar turns out to be untrue; Apple told MacCentral they will be fixing the bugs turned up by @stake. Next conspiracy, please!"

Comments

So what was the hold up?

[Sebby]

"Apple's policy is to quickly address significant vulnerabilities in past releases of Mac OS X wherever feasible,"

Clearly it was feasible, so why wasn't it quick?

Re:were they always going to?

[masonbrown]

It may seem like Apple leaves users out in the cold, but the way I see it is different. What Apple does is introduce new must-have technology, thus encouraging people to upgrade. When that newer tech isn't back-ported to a previous system, people feel left behind. All of a sudden, in light of the new improved shiny goodness the minor stability and security updates are often met with cries of "if they updated why don't they just give me too?"

Perfect example would be the old iPod versus the new iPod. Some people bought old iPods shortly before the new ones were released. Yeah, there have been updates. But they didn't add features like On-The-Go playlists, or games, or any of the other little goodies. So therefore the owners of the older iPods feel abandoned since they aren't getting any cool updates, just routine updates.

Re:This might not be good news.

[callipygian-showsyst]

It's a small OS X Server. 10.2.8 screwed up all *kinds* of things.

No it didn't. It's BETTER. You're not thinking different.

Re:Well hell

[morelife]

Following Apple-related discussions on Slashdot is like riding on a bus with no steering

Well said. To boot, making any true comment about Mac performance or Apple's performance as a company will get you modded Troll in a heartbeat by the Mac lurkers who think they're technologists.

Untrue?

[Rick2D2]

While a lot of the comentary that followed assumed that Apple would not be releasing patches for older versions of 10.x, the original article said nothing untrue.

Were the vulnerabilities fixed in 10.3? Yes.
Were the vulnerabilities patched for older versions? No.
Did Apple comment when asked about whether they would patch older versions? No. (They did comment today).

Just because a lot of alarmists chose to interpret these facts as meaning that Appple would not patch the vulnerabilites for older versions does not mean that the article told any untruths.

Re:Who needs it?

[t0ny]

wow, they finally decided to build servers. Im amazed.

Now all they need is a NOS.