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Apple Uncommunicative About Security Holes
blackmonday writes "Kieren McCarthy of Techworld argues that Mac OS X is rife with security holes, and that Apple is doing a 'half-hearted' job of patching their operating system security holes, and has a 'strange habit of pretending a big problem is of no significance.' As a Mac user I find this an intriguing article in light of the Sasser Worm and its recent variants." Despite the article's assertions, no evidence of widespread security problems, or lack of effort to solve them, is offered. The only real question is Apple's lack of communication with the public in the nature of the problems.
What people fail to realize is that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of people own Macs and many of them are now connected to the Internet.
Imagine the havoc an OSX based worm would wreak at an art school or a large interior design firm. This kind of stuff needs to be taken more seriously by Apple.
Wayne's World, Wayne's World, party time, excellent!
p.s. find a new method of sarcasm!
...an "Apple", with "holes" in it, which could be exploited by "Worms"...
Well, I thought it was funny, at least.
You are correct sir! It's not like Microsoft released the patch for the Welchia worm a month before the worms release or anything!
Why should Apple take exploits in OS X seriously? Isn't it true that vulnerabilities are never exploited until a patch is available?
MacBook Pro. Worst name since the Bicycle
You obviously don't understand the fact that Steve Jobs is a genius. I once witnessed Steve turn a barrel of rocks into gold bricks. The man is amazing.
OS X holes aren't problems, but opportunities for Mac users who "Think Different." to explore the creative possibilities of their Mac from a new, unique and artful perspective.
Apple is a corporation that cares about and nurtures the creative class of our society. "Security" is just another word for mindless oppression by the man.
Microsoft is just and evil corporation in it for the money, and they put holes in their software to sell more stuff!
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
DO they ship apache with every copy of mac os x?
evil is as evil does
You are obviously an Apple-basher. The "white spots" were an undocumented feature that enhanced powerbook usability.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
You obviously care too much. This is your 5th sarcastic post on this topic alone. What on earth happened to you to make you sit on Slashdot, reloading this topic and posting over and over?
1. Paranoia is not healthy. 2. We are talking about home user's here, not ./ readers.
3. Exposing vulnerabilities only helps out the script kiddies and virus/trojan writers. They can write and release an exploit long before a patch comes out.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Apple does not ignore security issues. They're taken very seriously, and fixed ASAP.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
And it's not like the didn't release a working patch for the RPC for months... and it's not like they don't ship 12 products that enable msql servers by default.
Nothing like a bit of slammer in the morning to really test out your network team's response time.
I suspect it has more to do with some people's masochistic desire to make themselves look idiotic by bandying about terminology they obviously don't understand. Apparently "security through obscurity" now means things like not providing the world with step-by-step instructions for accessing your machine. I guess keeping your passwords secret is also "security through obscurity" now too.
I'm sure it's waaaay too much to ask all these parroting dumbasses to actually read a book on security. So let's just make fun of them.
Yeah, those damn companies. Bad bad bad! You think you can hide these inexistent flaws? These null security holes!? You think you can keep the public from these VULNERABILITIES that... we haven't found yet?! I say no! WRONG!
YOU will pay for your treacherous hiding of non-existing security holes. Just picture it: Some day, a non-existent hacker will get on his non-existent computer and create the ultimate blank computer virus and you'll see! Oh-hohoho... THEN it'll all come crashing down. You know it'll happen!
I'm going to go use Windows, which I KNOW has too many security flaws to count, and I KNOW will fail me at the drop of a hat. Go back to where you came from because I know I'm using a product that has REAL flaws. Bah!
I am NOT a number! I am a - oh wait, I'm number 761710. Look! 761710!
Hehe. You seem to have misunderstood. I was joking about how hilariously easy it is to configure Apache on Mac OS X.
To be fair, it's about as easy as configuring IIS on XP or Apache on Linux.
Wait. Unless you were joking too, in which case I didn't get it...
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
I've never used Windows myself
Wow, you could get a spot on news. Care to explain how you managed this remarkable achivement, especially if you work with computers?
Just like my gun.
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Uh, I've been a sysadmin since 1994, and I still don't believe that most systems need firewalls.
Wow, I'm glad you're not my admin.
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.