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Month of Apple Bugs Debuts in January

Posted by Zonk on from the sure-to-raise-some-eyebrows dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A pair of security researchers has picked January 2007 as the Month of Apple Bugs, a project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple's OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it. According to a post over at The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, the project is being put together by researchers Kevin Finisterre and the guy who ran November's Month of Kernel Bugs project." From the post: "It should be interesting to see whether Apple does anything to try and scuttle this pending project. In November, a researcher who focuses most of his attention on bugs in database giant Oracle's software announced his intention to launch a "Week of Oracle Database Bugs" project during the first week of December. The researcher abruptly canceled the project shortly after the initial announcement, without offering any explanation."

7 of 171 comments (clear)

  1. Impossible by daemonenwind · · Score: 1, Funny

    This can't possibly be true.

    OS X is inherently secure. There is no possible way 31 separate security holes could exist; Darth Jobs saw to it personally.

  2. A month of Apple bugs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    A week of Apple games.

  3. Re:In response to these great efforts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You sound as self-important as he does.

  4. Also by this author... by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Month of Homeland Security Vulnerabilities!
    The places where terrorists could to the absolute most damage if they were to strike within the next few hours!

    --
    Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
  5. Re:Hint to Apple PR: you can make hay from this by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Memo to Apple PR: Work with this guy. Simply ensure that each bug identified is fixed ASAP, and issue a press release about it. This lets you capture and keep the high ground by showing that you care more about security and quality than the competition does. Up for it?

    Memo to toby: We don't negotiate with terrorists.

    --Steve

  6. Month of Apple Bugs by wile_e8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    To be followed by the Decade of Microsoft Bugs. Welcome, Vista...

  7. Re:Some thoughts and considerations by kwerle · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm thinking that you're not the only person who sorts arrays using sortUsingSelector on an intel machine.

    I'm also thinking that they probably haven't done anything with that particular code in the past 8 years.

    I am thinking that it is a problem with your code.