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Apple Responds to Exploit
Dave Schroeder writes, "This isn't so much of a root vulnerability as a default configuration that trusts the integrity of the local network services. This functionality has been around since NeXTSTEP, and is designed to allow for auto-configuration of new servers/machines brought into the network. The quick 'fix' for the vast majority of users who choose to implement it is to uncheck LDAPv3 and NetInfo altogether in Directory Access. Or, if LDAP services are used, just uncheck 'Use DHCP-supplied LDAP Server' in LDAPv3. ... One could argue that these features should be off by default, but if they are, it kind of wrecks the whole auto-configuration scheme." This sounds related to a great new feature in Mac OS X Server 10.3/Xserve called "automatic setup" that -- for machines that come with it preinstalled -- will get their address and LDAP server via DHCP and look for configuration files, and automatically configure the entire server, without any interaction beyond plugging it into the network and turning it on.
Cognitive dissonance for the Mac cult?
Please respond if you are a non-fudgepacker that own these overpriced, underpowered machines. I'd like to know if anyone with tight sphincters are macheads.
calling this an exploit is downright foolish. -j
Its an exploit by all means.
Its like calling a bug a "feature"
FOAD
I bought an Apple computer because of its native support for teledildonics. I bought a USB FUFME and MacOS immediately recognized it and installed drivers instantly! As a gay Catholic priest who often can't be at the altar all the time, you can understand how the ability to have sex with children whilst on the airplane with my Powerbook and wireless internet service is a lifesaver.
I just have a single question, will Apple be releasing a firewire version of the FUFME anytime soon?
With much gayness,
Father Michael "Arminass" Sims
Sure it is. Just tell them that LDAP is MS's new DRM for Apple. It will be unchecked worldwide within 24 hours, with all sorts of unfounded conspiracy theories.
It's amazing what you can get done when you falsely claim MS is up to no good. Just see the BIOS story for all the "+5, baseless guess at MS using your spare computing cycles" crap.
Sure Steve Jobs will have a drink with you, right after you pay him the $150 to upgrade to the latest service pack for os x that should be free. Then get ready to do it again in a few months.
"How will company x handle themselves when a vunlerability is discovered in their product?"
By charging you $150 to upgrade to the latest service pack of course.
Thats like saying "We have dozens of crimes in those countries that allow more freedoms than us"
Apple = Dictators.
Apple Users = Sheep.
Apple Zealot = Particularly angry sheep.
Windows = Freedom
Microsoft = USA
God Bless America.
More like he shoved it up your ass and you bleated "thank you sir, may I have another!" with love in your eyes.
Macinistas... ya gotta love 'em!
Okay, the joke is lame but it's a good point.
Macs have come a long way in the last few years. It seems like there are as many ex *nix people using them as there are old time mac users.
The whole 'dumb mac user' thing really doesn't apply any more. Since Macs started working right, they've migrated over to XP where they found solace with bonzai buddy and his gator friends.
Anyone know how to make a Mac work as a DHCP client in the first place??
We plugged one into our network, just wanting to use the web browser, and spent several hours wandering round all the network configuration dialogs we could find. We could find nothing at all that would persuade the Mac to actually go and ask the DHCP server for an IP address. (So we junked it and carried on just using real computers.)
You asinine troll. Windows is quite simply broken. Want proof? If something is f*cked up on your Windows system, and you reboot it, it frequently fixes the problem. Try that with another operating system. A reboot shouldn't fix anything, it's a symptom of the operating system breaking itself.
I've been using NT since 3.51, I've been using computers since I was four years old, and I have always had to periodically reinstall windows. Oh sure, I could fuck with it for weeks and figure out which program has done what strange and undocumented thing to my registry, or my DLLs in spite of the system restore, or some third stupid thing, but it's a lot faster and easier to simply do a repair install, and then reinstall service packs and patches.
Now, I have had my XP system running without a reinstall for quite some time now, but things are not as simple as you imagine them to be. Windows is seriously flawed in just about every department except ease of use -- when it works. When everything is working fine I find Windows XP to be the most pleasant user desktop experience around, and yes I have run OS X. But when it's not working, Windows is worse than any other operating system than I have ever encountered short of MacOS 6 through 9, which are all now dead or dying. (If you're handy with a debugger, which you should not have to be to simply run some programs, you can figure out what's going on with older versions of MacOS. To me, it was not encouraging when Apple provided the debugger free, because you were going to need it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
They always said that you would never be anything.
Everything you tried to do was just a waste of time.
But you believed you could do any sex you wanted to.
You made your mind up and you came from behind.
Don't let them try to tell you what computer to buy
Don't let them hold you back, don't ever change your mind.
Homosexuality - Be proud of what you are
Homosexuality - Don't let them cut you down
You can buy whatever comp you want to buy,
But don't change from Apple for society.
Don't lose your Homosexuality.
The years go by, you find that pudge cums easily.
And the world is full of people tryin' to rape your ass.
Don't ever turn your back on anything you've ever been.
You don't need to prove yourself to anybody else.
Don't let them try to tell you what computer to buy
Don't let them hold you back, don't ever change your mind.
Homosexuality - Be proud of what you are
Homosexuality - Don't let them cut you down
You can buy whatever comp you want to buy,
But don't change from Apple for society.
Don't lose your Homosexuality.
There's no room for second best, no second chance, don't fail the test,
Gotta rise above the rest, gotta try to make your mark.
You don't need to be so vain, no need to act so proud,
Follow the trendies, don't ever stand out from the Apple crowd.
Do you really care what other people want to do to you?
Does it really matter what they do or if they're gay?
You've fucked too hard to let them cum all back in your face.
When their Apples never mattered anyway.
Don't let them try to tell you what computer to buy
Don't let them hold you back, don't ever change your mind.
Homosexuality - Be proud of what you are
Homosexuality - Don't let them cut you down
You can buy whatever comp you want to buy,
But don't change from Apple for society.
Don't lose your Homosexuality.
Don't lose your Homosexuality.
Don't lose your Homosexuality.
Hey, you're in my opt-in list now, jerk.
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!
I am a strictly a tit-for-tat fellow. More tit than tat, possibly, but that probably because I'm actually a guy.
My freaks list is the "opt-in". I follow them around and abusively point out their lies in the manner of Ann Coulter.
Don't know about your journal problem. Seems like you've got a real dilemma here.
I don't have any enemies either. Spreadin' the love around.
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!