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Mac Developer Mulls Zero-day Security Response
1.6 Beta writes "Landon Fuller, the Mac programmer/Darwin developer behind the 'month of Apple fixes' project, plans to expand the initiative to roll out zero-day patches for issues that put Mac OS X users at risk of code execution attacks. The former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group has already shipped a fix for a nasty flaw in Java's GIF image decoder and hints an an auto-updating mechanism for the third-party patches. The article quotes him as saying, 'Perhaps [it could be] the Mac OS equivalent to ZERT,' referring to the Zero-day Emergency Response Team."
The former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group
Not sure I'd trust zero-day patches from a guy who couldn't hack it working for Avie.
Just sayin'.
What does Microsoft have to do with anything?! Is it possible to stick to talking about your own OS for two seconds? Even if MOAB is publicity whoring it doesn't change the fact that these bugs were real. If someone wanted to do something malicious with them, they could have. Imagine if MOAB never existed and someone else found those bugs. Then what? You expect everyone to dutifully submit them to Apple? Not likely. Eventually someone is going to do something malicious and you better not rely on the "honor system" to stop them. Sure MOAB is a slap in the face to Apple and their customers. So what? Don't buy their t-shirts. Complaining about it won't stop it. You better get used to dealing with this. It's only going to get worse.
The problem is, the apple community, meaning the utopian society that thinks they are full proof against viruses, are not making any pressure.
they just cant believe that MAC is not secure so why would the company care, it has been grazing in the field for far too long and has gotten fat and lazy.
Face the fact Job, MAC aint as secure as it was led to believe.