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Two Black Hat Talks On Apple Security Cancelled
An anonymous reader writes "Two separate Apple security talks have been nixed at the last minute from next week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The Washington Post's Security Fix blog reports that Apple researcher Charles Edge was to present on flaws in Apple's FileVault encryption plan, but asked Black Hat to cancel the talk, citing confidentiality agreements with Apple. Then on Friday, Apple pulled its security engineering team out of a planned public discussion on the company's security practices — which would have been a first for Apple. 'Marketing got wind of it, and nobody at Apple is ever allowed to speak publicly about anything without marketing approval,' a Black Hat spokesman said."
if we kill those marketing people, the world is going to be a much better place. preferred method should be beating to death by a stick.
of course, thats excluding nycl from the lawyers list.
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It's evident now: "Security by obscurity".
i don't know how, but this is definitely MS's fault. those sneaky pricks at MS have found a way to force apple into using their patented security model.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
you would want exploits in your system known. say your running a bunch of servers or selling a software product, would you like people to know how to make you lose time/money?
sarcasm > bash
Shades of M$. When will the corporates ever learn?
as apposed to an exploit (which apple ignores or doesn't look into) turning into the equivalent of the code red worm? brilliant PR work there son.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
All the mac uses I know have brown hats, not black ones.
You thought my name meant what? How very dare you!
And the evidence that this is the case? The word of some "spokesman" for Black Hat.
Right. That's me convinced!