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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."
Would it be possible to rig up a filter that checks if stories are directly from the Digg front page? It seems silly for Slashdot to be syphoning all its news from Digg. I would have expected the more senior Slashdot to be ahead of Digg but, lately all the Slashdot stories are several hours old Digg stories.
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The difference is that "backdoor" to most apple users means something quite different.
Who wants to hack into a computer owned by a faggot with fuck all on it apart from iTunes and other cum slurping sub-standard programs anyway?
Real men use windows.
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.
Learn to read, it won't hit Windows users at all if it's written to affect your precious Mac. You smoke screen simply because there aren't any viruses known *now*. History didn't know the atomic bomb until someone dropped one either, but when it did, the rest of the world took note. You won't know how dumb and careless you are until you are until that dogma you dribble bites you on the ass. When you are left trying to disinfect that wanna-be Microsoft's second rate rebranded hybrid of FreeBSD and NeXT, come talk to me about invulnerable.
Further, with that assinine "Mac never" attitude, it's only a matter of time before one of those nice l33t hax0rs targets you just to make you and your ilk STFU.
And since you are so dumb to think that I run Windows just because I mentioned it, you'll be disheartened to know I run OpenBSD. But I don't think I am invulnerable because of that, I take other precautions such as patching, firewalling, and virus scanning that you Mac nuts keep touting as unceccessary on your "invulnerable" platform.
I know a ton of you Mac nuts still running old unpatched OSX boxes and think they don't need too, even though the patches fix exploitable vulnerabilities. This gives those l33t hax0rs plenty of room to play. Just type "mac" into the search box of cert.org or us-cert.gov, and marvel at how "invulnerable" you shitwits really are. You would think that simply the fact that Apple releases patches would tell you that you are vulnerable, but you would rather pretned that shit doesn't attact flies.
There was a time, before Windows was on every desktop when it didn't have to worry about security because all the viruses were targetting UNIX. What does history show you there?