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Security Updates Released for Panther and Jaguar

Posted by pudge on from the what-happens-if-everyone-reboots-at-once? dept.

ZackSchil writes "Apple has released security updates for both Mac OS X 10.3.1 and, as promised, 10.2.8. The update to 10.3.1 updates OpenSSL and zlib's gzprintf() function. In addition to those updates, the 10.2.8 update contains changes to gm4, groff, Mail w/CRAM-MD5 authentication, Personal File Sharing, and QuickTime for Java. Run Software Update for more information and to install the updates."

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  1. Where's Safari 1.1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I spent 800.00 on an Apple laptop purely to test the websites I create two months ago (I'm a web developer and I take QA seriously). It's a pretty big slap in the face to find out that the investment is worthless.

  2. QuitTime? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet another piece of evidence showing that Apple doesn't care about security OR stability. You motherfuckers were right, I'm switching to Windows.

  3. Why is OSX is so buggy all of a second. by Tuxinatorium · · Score: -1, Troll

    What happened? I'll bet you this was all caused by an incident involving two Apple programmers, hot grits, and Natalie Portman. As Linus Torvalds and the Goatse guy can attest, it's hard to write decent code while blowing your load.

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  4. Re:This just in: THE SKY DIDN'T FALL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They changed their minds after the outcry.

    Read the original, unimproved version here (it's a Google cache, not a goatse.cx redirect):

    http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:AfvCuUwRG54J: news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5098688.html+confirmed&hl =en&ie=UTF-8

    And the new, improved one, to make it look like they had planned to update all along, and it was a "misunderstanding":
    http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5098688.html.

    Note that it was confirmed by @stake, not a rumor. Nice revisionism by news.com.

  5. HAHA by ViperG · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was walking into staples and was talking to one of my friends who works there. He noticed some guy walking in with a printer, then he said to me "shit that is the 4th time he has come back with a printer".. then he said, he has the new mac os, none of them would intall on his panther os.

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  6. Wait a few days before installing this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    If breaking, deleting and malfunctioning are anything to go by, Apple's track record over the past several weeks is, to put it mildly, less than it has been in the past.

    Let the anti-empiricists do the beta testing before jumping on any OS X updates in the short term.