Apple Asks Security Experts To Examine OS X Lion

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 27, 2011 @08:35AM from the kick-the-tires dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For as much as Mac OS X has a reputation for being safer than Windows, security researchers won't hesitate to point out that the opposite is, in fact, true. But Apple's looking to change that. This past Thursday, Apple doled out a beta of OS X Lion to developers. In conjunction with that, Apple is also reaching out to noted security experts and offering them free previews of OS X 10.7 so that they can take a look at Apple's new security measures and reach back to Apple with any thoughts and concerns they might have. Indeed, Apple is becoming a lot more security conscious these days, not only in terms of reaching out to security researchers but also in its personnel hires."

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Good Old Apple... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2011-02-27 08:38 · Score: 0, Troll

They sure have increased their emphasis on security, now that they are in a position where insecurity might allow their customers to treat the devices that they own as such...
Re:Why did they wait until now? by ynp7 · 2011-02-27 09:15 · Score: 0, Troll

Apple is a nation now? Geez, you Apple fanboys have it even worse than I imagined.