Three weeks from a major Apple announcement... it's open FUD SEASON
Mostly FUD as it has to do with a buffer overflow in a non-execute area...
Mac OS X Security vulnerability FUD rehash Ping!
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Three weeks from a major Apple announcement... it's open FUD SEASON
Mostly FUD as it has to do with a buffer overflow in a non-execute area...
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Sounds like a prison break where the inmates tunnel into the prison court yard rather than outside the walls.
Same ol, same ol it seems to me. Reality remains that unless you execute some extreme steps and open your OS X up completely and post a roadmap to your machine...not much gonna ever happen to it.
Barring some change in the cosmic balance, a new Mac Mini becomes the new studio computer in 3 days!!!
Peace :)
Sure, it's not a screaming emergency, but that's no excuse for Apple to leave it unaddressed this long:
The vulnerability was addressed in FreeBSD and NetBSD last [sic] last summer.It's just plain stupid on Apple's part to not address something that opens them to this kind of FUD article. The facts are correct as stated: The vuln was known long ago, other BSDs corrected it long ago (including FreeBSD, the basis for OS-X), and Apple should have done so, period. Screaming high priority? No. But it's very foolish from a "PR" point of view to stand around with one's pants around one's ankles like this.
> Three weeks from a major Apple announcement... it's open FUD SEASON
True, and more will follow. Nevertheless, Apple is in the wrong on this one, and for no apparent reason other than foolishness.