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Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable
mdeb writes "ZDNet Australia is running a story that claims Mac OS X 'contains unpatched security flaws of a type that were fixed on alternative operating systems more than a decade ago.' As an example, in August of last year, Apple patched the 'dsidentity' bug, which could easily have been exploited to grant a non-privileged user with admin rights the capability to create and remove 'root' user accounts."
Or have I been listening to the anti M$ people too much?
some mac-o-phile will be on here saying how it doesn't matter and mac os X is uber secure.
If it's dead, you killed it.
Apple is totally insignificant when it comes to PC's and OS. I really don't care if small niche systems like Apple is not too secure. It will never gain much market share over what it has today anyway.
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
Errors in OSX? Impossible. This is the perfect OS, FOSS and stuff. Must be a Microsoft developer involved.
Mod me down, I really don't give a shit.
depricated and replaced by dig(g)
So the choice of a UNIX platform has come and bit Apple in the ass. Could somebody tell me again why Apple abandoned its perfectly functional OS9 code? I didn't see anything wrong with the old Macs. What was the benefit of basing it on the legally ambiguous (and dying) BSD? And what's with this ugly DOS throwback? Who wants to see an old-fashioned text terminal on their computer?
and exactly what are your suggestions for fixing the bugs and exploits for OSX? Antivirus protection hasn't helped windows, neither has patch tuesdays. how about Linux, ever read the lists? local root exploits have been a dime a dozen and updates haven't always come from the vendors in a timely manner.
yeah, I think I'll not have any nightmares tonight about a local exploit. at worst, OSX will only become what Windows already is... in the meantime, I think I'll enjoy you guys pointing out that we're in for a big shock. the really shock is that a local exploit on OSX gets this much press, while remote exploits on Windows get a patch three months late.
Only in your bizarro world where OS X is perfect and critics are always wrong.
I would trust a retarded chimpanzee with Alzheimer's more than I would trust Microsoft, but that's not exactly saying much. Setting yourself "Microsoft" as the golden standard is kind of pointless.
As for why I (*shudder*) at the thought that students are responsible for some of the code in BSD (and also Linux, I shudder at that too), I have seen the code that students write. I've seen this come out of a student's garbled mind (written in C)...
If you're defending that, you're not the sort of person whose opinion I value.
DogShit, don't try to lecture on the history of an OS you don't understand. You look more ludicrous than usual.
Leave it to smarter people. Go sell your dog food and stick to the party line: whatever Microsoft does is the Right Thing.