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Apple Releases Mac OS X Leopard Security Guide
Wormfan writes to share ZDNet's brief mention of and a link to "Apple's release of a ~250 page PDF of security best-practices and tips to protect Mac OS X Leopard clients. The guide is aimed at experienced users, Apple says, familiar with the Terminal application and its command-line interface."
What are you talking about? Even OpenBSD has security-related documents and manuals. While OpenBSD is super safe for the out-of-the-box install, any time you open a port or enable a daemon, you are exposing yourself to some kind of vulnerability if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
Mac OS X is the same way. If you're enabling advanced services and whatnot, as per the experts this manual is aimed at, you need to know what you're doing. This manual addresses that.
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I have not read the document fully yet (obviously, it is 240 pages!) but I have to say Apple do a damn good job in presenting their documents. The first thing I thought when I opened the PDF was how nicely formatted it is. It is a silly little thing but I much prefer a well presented document than just text dumped. Kudos to whoever put it together, I just hope the content is as good as the presentation!