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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."
Did someone mix up apple.slashdot.org with slashdot.org? There are WAY too many Apple crossposts the past few days.
Digg is a lot faster at this because it automatically promotes stories to the front page if it gets enough diggs (often in a short time). Slashdot, however, only posts a certain number of stories a day, and there is typically a queue of 2-3 days worth of stories ahead of anything new, unless it's REALLY important.
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Even worse! That very same story appeared on ZD Net Australia two days ago!
The horror!
Slashdot is really going downhill these days!
or maybe it was submitted to both at once.
Personally, I don't read Digg, so I couldn't care less what appears on it, or when.
It seems to me, that if you're compulsively refreshing both Digg and Slashdot enough that you're complaining about slashdot being a couple of hours behind Digg, that maybe there are more important problems in your life that you should be addressing.....
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It surprises me that such a big fuss is made. I agree that for someone who 'wants' security features and they don't work as expected there is a problem, but what about the other people who don't want security features even though they cannot be turned off in OSX or Windows XP for example? It makes me enjoy using OSs which don't have security features (such as MorphOS or AmigaOS) as these let me 'the user' do *EVERYTHING* I want to do on my own computer.