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It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability!

Posted by timothy on from the proactivation dept.

pmeunier writes "Apple's security stance is stunning. In the latest (10.3.9) update, Apple removed two capabilities because they pose security risks. One of them is the capability to run setuid and setguid scripts (the other was actually unused). Can other commercial OS vendors (how many are there :) adopt a similar stance? Will you be inconvenienced by the inability to run setuid scripts on MacOS X? Which other features/capabilities (in any OS) would you like to have removed?"

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  1. Re:Stunning? by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it's broken, it should be fixed, not thrown away.

    Imagine if Microsoft just removed IE because of all the security problems....wait. Let me re-think my position on this.

  2. Re:Stunning? by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Coincidentally, that's IE's problem too.

  3. This is a smart move by Apple by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    And, since they did this, everything feels snappier!