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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."
There once was a handsome young man named Jon. He was a pretty normal person. He had a very nice girlfriend that treated him right, but of course the asshole screwed up that relationship like he did all the others. After going out with his ex-girlfriends best friend and a few other meaningless relationships he decided to go out with one of his own friends. Now this girl was a druggie, a sluttly bitch, and very dirty; who knows why he went out with her. They talked and went out to parties like a normal couple would, but one night something happened. They went back to his place a little drunk, luckily his mom wasn't home. After making out for about an hour in his room Kate said, "Jon... I want you to take me..." But to make a long story short lets just say they fucked. Well a few days after that Kate broke up with him. Now poor Jon was back to being depressed and lonely. He didn't talk with his friends much anymore until he started to feel something was really wrong with himself. His cock started to itch more then normal, his balls started to get lumpy things on them, and when he peed it burned. When he told his friends they just laughed. So, Jon thought it wasnt a big deal. But one day in the shower after gym class as he was washing himself, his cock fell off. By this time it was a greenish color and started to smell funny, so there wasnt a use in trying to save it. He was scared that people would make fun of him so he put a towel on, place his cock in his gym bag and later through it out. He never told anymore about what happened. So children the moral of this short story is NEVER ever ever sleep with dirty girls named Kate or else your cock will fall off.
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.....
Advanced users are users too!
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.