Here I go again. Every time I point out real shortcomings of an Apple product, I get modded to oblivion - "There are none so blind as those who will not see." Posted from my MacBook, BTW.
'Tis no mere canard or straw man. Simple economies of scale keep the Macs out of the botnets - not Cupertino prowess.
Microsoft is Swiss Cheese, that's wrapped in foil.
Apple is Swiss Cheese labeled as "Ementhaler" - believing that the luxury branding will ward off serious scrutiny, but leaving those holes exposed.
It's like this everyyear. Apple leaves vulnerabilities wide enough to drive a truck through, and I've lost count of the number of these things given away as prizes to the cracking teams.
Apple patch the OS like Microsoft used to, before Slammer. The ususal culprits? QuickTime and Safari.
The guys who cracked the MacBook Air need only have coupled this with the DNS flaw in AT&T customer TwoWire routers, and a very bad situation would exist in the wild. Not trivial - but not too difficult. The hard part was finding the flaw - now it's an exercise for the Kid33z. If there were an economically feasible number of Macs to do this, you can bet it would be crime syndicates and not kids - and you'd have a happy, Apple botnet.
``The AOL-Yahoo thing reminds me of two men drowning, both grabbing on to each other,'' said Mike Holland, who oversees more than $4 billion at Holland & Co. in New York, including Microsoft shares. ``It usually doesn't end in a pretty way or a smart way or an effective way.''
Well. They're to late to capture last week's bout of virulent diarrhoea. There's an episode I'm not soon liable to forget!
That such moments will be forever trapped and preserved, like a fly in digital amber, is a notion that I relish with degree of satisfaction paralleled only by the joy I have in watching old episodes of The Waltons and the Golden Girls.
Extensively, on/. a couple of years back - with relevant links. Naturally, I was "troll modded" to -1, while also growing a flaming trail of replies, some dozen long.
I'd like to see MedicatedDad's post to the front page as vindication, but it IS April 1st...
Helping a Vole out of a hole By Nick Farrell: Tuesday, 09 January 2007, 2:26 PM
THE USA GOVERNMENT'S cryptologic organisation, the National Security Agency, has admitted that it is behind some of the security changes to Microsoft's operating system Vista. According to the Washington Post, the agency which was once so secret that it was jokingly referred to as 'No such Agency' has admitted making 'unspecified contributions' to Vista.
Tony Sager, the NSA's chief of vulnerability analysis and operations group, told the Post that it was the agency's intention to help everyone these days.
The NSA used a red and a blue team to pull apart the software. The red team posed as "the determined, technically competent adversary" to disrupt, corrupt or steal information. The Blue team helped Defense Department system administrators with Vista's configuration.
Vole said that it has sought help from the NSA over the last four years. Apparently its skills can be seen in the Windows XP consumer version and the Windows Server 2003 for corporate customers.
The assistance is at the US taxpayers' expense, although the NSA says it all makes perfect sense. Not only is the NSA protecting United States business, its own Defense Department uses VoleWare so it is in the government's interest to make sure it is as secure as possible.
Microsoft is not the only one to tap the spooks. Apple, with its Mac OSX operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA what it thought of their products. The NSA is quite good at finding weapons of mass destruction that are not there.
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Ahh! How I wish you'd posted this under your real ID! I'd love to track the mod war!
Here I go again. Every time I point out real shortcomings of an Apple product, I get modded to oblivion - "There are none so blind as those who will not see." Posted from my MacBook, BTW.
'Tis no mere canard or straw man. Simple economies of scale keep the Macs out of the botnets - not Cupertino prowess.
Microsoft is Swiss Cheese, that's wrapped in foil.
Apple is Swiss Cheese labeled as "Ementhaler" - believing that the luxury branding will ward off serious scrutiny, but leaving those holes exposed.
Lo! http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9905095-37.html
It's like this every year. Apple leaves vulnerabilities wide enough to drive a truck through, and I've lost count of the number of these things given away as prizes to the cracking teams.
Apple patch the OS like Microsoft used to, before Slammer. The ususal culprits? QuickTime and Safari.
The guys who cracked the MacBook Air need only have coupled this with the DNS flaw in AT&T customer TwoWire routers, and a very bad situation would exist in the wild. Not trivial - but not too difficult. The hard part was finding the flaw - now it's an exercise for the Kid33z. If there were an economically feasible number of Macs to do this, you can bet it would be crime syndicates and not kids - and you'd have a happy, Apple botnet.
`Two Men Drowning'
``The AOL-Yahoo thing reminds me of two men drowning, both grabbing on to each other,'' said Mike Holland, who oversees more than $4 billion at Holland & Co. in New York, including Microsoft shares. ``It usually doesn't end in a pretty way or a smart way or an effective way.''
Can you say Yea! Defense!
C'mon. Yahoo is pluckings now. Default to Google, if no Microsoft buy.
Nope. I'm to blame.
Well. They're to late to capture last week's bout of virulent diarrhoea. There's an episode I'm not soon liable to forget!
That such moments will be forever trapped and preserved, like a fly in digital amber, is a notion that I relish with degree of satisfaction paralleled only by the joy I have in watching old episodes of The Waltons and the Golden Girls.
Re-run runs...
Chartreuse on ultra-violet - with red flashes.
Also Electric Blue on Signal Orange. That's like an iHop, or a Warhol.
My old Alcatel looks like a grey shoe. And just chugs along...
First Phish
Fist Phish?
Psot Frist?
Watch him gayly romp through Poland, Czechoslovakia and France!
Vista wins the coveted "Glass Turd" award.
Most disappointing moment:
Vista wins the coveted "Glass Turd" award.
Windows 7? Going 2 for 2.
That's "after the link".
/. story doesn't give much detail, context or reason to be interested in a discussion.
The
Yeah. Some content in this front-page article - beyond the version number - would have been helpful.
Oh, Yeah. Ray Ozzie.
But really. Windows 7 will be what? Does anybody really want something the don't have in XP?
Bullshit is right.
People "pirate" software to get it for free!
I'm gonna trade mark the Sky.
Hey, hey! You, you! Get offa my cloud!
Good going, Slashdot freakshow. Two downmods of a relevant comment by a 3-digit UID - who was posting here on his Coleco Adam - and no replies.
Extensively, on /. a couple of years back - with relevant links. Naturally, I was "troll modded" to -1, while also growing a flaming trail of replies, some dozen long.
I'd like to see MedicatedDad's post to the front page as vindication, but it IS April 1st...
And so, the Scientology strategy of blaming their detractors through a blackbag job worked. They got you to believe this was by Anonymous.
Help with crypto isn't help with system security. ;-) Especially when you are keeping the master-key.
The mission and methods of the NSA are contemptible.
Turn your back to the Sekrit Poleese.
Helping a Vole out of a hole
By Nick Farrell: Tuesday, 09 January 2007, 2:26 PM
THE USA GOVERNMENT'S cryptologic organisation, the National Security Agency, has admitted that it is behind some of the security changes to Microsoft's operating system Vista.
According to the Washington Post, the agency which was once so secret that it was jokingly referred to as 'No such Agency' has admitted making 'unspecified contributions' to Vista.
Tony Sager, the NSA's chief of vulnerability analysis and operations group, told the Post that it was the agency's intention to help everyone these days.
The NSA used a red and a blue team to pull apart the software. The red team posed as "the determined, technically competent adversary" to disrupt, corrupt or steal information. The Blue team helped Defense Department system administrators with Vista's configuration.
Vole said that it has sought help from the NSA over the last four years. Apparently its skills can be seen in the Windows XP consumer version and the Windows Server 2003 for corporate customers.
The assistance is at the US taxpayers' expense, although the NSA says it all makes perfect sense. Not only is the NSA protecting United States business, its own Defense Department uses VoleWare so it is in the government's interest to make sure it is as secure as possible.
Microsoft is not the only one to tap the spooks. Apple, with its Mac OSX operating system, and Novell with its SUSE Linux also asked the NSA what it thought of their products. The NSA is quite good at finding weapons of mass destruction that are not there.
I build without SELinux, and I keep an eye on my compiler, too.
:-)
Tinfoil accessorizes more nicely than bullshit.
I'll be dropping this like a hot, forking potato.
As will, I am sure, most other countries in the world. How many people want to unwittingly maintain an Echelon outpost for the Internet?
BTW. These guys are acting outside the confines of legal authority as we speak. Why trust any contibution?
They help you sue - and to reach out-of-court refunds.