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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."
The difference is that "backdoor" to most apple users means something quite different.
Well, hopefully this causes a great big scare and lots of crapped pants. Seriously. I know too many OSX users who brag about how they can blatantly ignore almost all the common security protocols for computer use 'cause they're on the Holy Apple OS X, IMMUNE TO ALL THINGS BAD! I shudder to think what these people do in their cars when they hear about it winning some special six-star crash test rating.
"Fight for lost causes. You may discover they weren't."
Why is this given a moderation of 5? Are you suggesting that "most apple users" are gay? It's a pretty freakin' crude statement. I thought we were all out of the middle school and high school name calling, but I guess we are not.
In a not so subtle way you basically said
"Hey, anyone who uses a Mac must be a fag - cause you know what the term backdoor means to those people."
Someone mod this guy down, please.