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Apple Patches Wireless Drivers
Frank writes "Apple quietly released a pair of patches today to its wireless drivers. The patches (one for PowerPC, one for Intel) address distinct buffer overflow vulnerabilities found during an internal audit in response to the claim that fuzzing the drivers resulted in an exploitable failure."
Apple quietly released a pair of patches today to its wireless drivers.
What, you expect them to loudly release a pair of patches? "Hey, everybody, our products have a flaw which allows them to be wirelessly rooted in under a minute! Better apply this patch!!!1!!one!"
Somehow I don't think that would go over too well on Wall Street.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
The fact that they didn't hold a secretive special event to announce it.
Sig: I stole this sig.
What did you expect? Were you hoping for your Mac to suddenly start playing band music, move confetti across the desktop, and then pop up the words "CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE A PENDING PATCH AVAILABLE" over whatever you were trying to work with?
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I wish Windows did that. :(
Well other than the national dress code of a black turtleneck and blue jeans and Lattes becoming the official drink of the country, it's not that bad of an idea.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
It's Patchtime. (R)
Does Hipocrisy have a sister?
Cause I've been fucking Hypocrisy for years now.
Just thought they might be related.
Cause of the names you know.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
yer absolutely right *hangs head in shame* ... it was meant to be a joke... /sigh
Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
The iPatch? Did they release this on the 19th of September or something?
"Arr, matey -- it's International Dress Like a Pirate Day, too, dincha know?"
I really like that analogy. Now if you can just put it in terms of cars...