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Apple Closes iSight Security Hole
Gruber Duckie writes "Apple's security update 2006-008, posted yesterday, is a little more interesting than it sounds. According to information (and a demo!) posted at Macslash the "information leak" mentioned in Apple's advisory actually makes it possible for a web site to send whatever your (isight) web cam sees up to the server. I'm glad they fixed this quickly."
That's going to keep me laughing a long time. ESPECIALLY at the mac zealots out there (those who believe it was the perfectly secure OS, but even patched it shows that what some zealots were saying before was an absolute steaming pile of something - there's a Mac user in the office 50 ft from me, i'm going there now to laugh). but FTA "They received code that demonstrated the problem on 05 December, and have a patch in software update as of today (19 December)." is pretty nice time on this patch, let's hope they keep it up - it sets a nice example for their competition *cough*patch tuesday*cough*
Haha, a security hole in a Mac! Look everyone, they suck like M$!
Let's make a big deal about it and pretend like whatever operating system we happen to enjoy is perfect.
There's nothing wrong with anything - Phillip J. Fry
This is hysterical two responses one pro Mac and one Pro MS, i got under the skin of everyone. On the MS post, yeah it's was just a generic comment on MS #'s of patches getting released, in hindsight not much validity to that comment. But to the pro Mac post, WTF you talking about? have you read Slashdot lately? The ONLY people I ever see who say "perfectly secure" or "bulletproof", are people like you, I can safely say that I have never in my life ever even suggested Mac's were secure, i used to screw around with Mac users in a variety of ways so I know the system isn't secure, haven't looked at OSX much, but it's another OS, it can be done, no questions about that, so knowing that why did you lie about my viewpoint? And another either your ignorant or lying comment, why are you able to see what I am reading or have knowledge of what I have read...i have in the past replied to comments where people did say there were no remote holes in Mac OSX, even so far as one who was so stupid he claimed it was secure even if you opened telnet and gave at the admin no one could get in - believe me, the Slashdot comments are filled with comments claiming a bizarre level of security, not all of them, but is a common sight. use the search there buddy, it's your friend, i'm too lazy to go back and post links to show your wrong.
/flame off
now sorry if this offends you, but you did respond with just a flame by added an insult at the end that you have no backing on, if that's the level the discussion is at, then i'm rubber and your glue. oh and i'm AC, cause I dont' give a damn, your djh101010 (656795) and that means absolutely squat to me. geez, say anything bad about Apple on Slashdot....I won't go on a flame here, i'm ending this here as I won't be reading more on this, but partly it was an experiment on where Slashdot views Apple, truth be told, if I was talking about laughing at MS users cause of remote security holes, I honestly believe I would be modded up, talk about Apple in the same boat and your damned to hell. Now I'm not lying or ignorant, but I see a rather unbalanced perspective of security in the OS world for Slashdot and if you don't see that, well then there's a difference of opinion (not ignorant or any other childish insults, some people actually do have a different perspective).....
sorry all, but I am a rather sarcastic little bastard at times
Fanboy: Nobody ever claims that OS X is bulletproof and perfectly safe.
Some Guy: Uhm yea actually a sales person told me that at an Apple store.
Another Fanboy: Well it's your fault for believing him even though you just said you didn't believe him.
The level of denial and amount of dissemination among Mac users is hilarious. I guess you've got to be pretty insane to paint Microsoft as the Satan of vendor lock-in, completely ignore GNU/Linux and jump to Mac which not only locks you into software but hardware too.
"But.. but.. but... I can run Windows on my Intel Mac..."
Oh yea, the side effect of Apple jumping IBM's ship. PowerPC who? Intel has always been the best. We've always been at war with Eurasia. Anyone who thinks that wasn't done just as another bullet point on a list is fooling themselves.