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If you're using any Apple product and think it's secure you're only fooling yourself. Plus they got many of the dumb users on their products so I suspect many of their users are completely owned.

Better switch to a more secure OS like Linux or Windows. And for phones Windows Phone is the most secure right now.

1 posted on 02/22/2014 10:33:57 AM PST by for-q-clinton
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To: Swordmaker; ShadowAce

Please ping both your aliases. Shadow I know you don’t like pinging apple stuff as swordmaker does that for his group, but this is pretty big and the tech community needs to be aware of it.


2 posted on 02/22/2014 10:36:59 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton

Look out below!

Mac users will be jumping out of the windows.

Macs NEVER have a problem with viruses, etc. [/s]


3 posted on 02/22/2014 11:00:45 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: for-q-clinton

The fixes are iOS 7.0.6 (iPhone 4 to 5S, iPad 2 and later) and iOS 6.1.6 (iPhone 3GS and 4th generation iPod touch).


4 posted on 02/22/2014 11:01:10 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: for-q-clinton

Fanboys all around the world are in stunned disbelief.


7 posted on 02/22/2014 11:43:43 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: for-q-clinton

OSX is a derivative of Unix. The truth of the matter is, ANY operating system is vulnerable. It’s just a matter of what degree.


10 posted on 02/22/2014 12:04:04 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: for-q-clinton
Here it is:
static OSStatus
SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange(SSLContext *ctx, bool isRsa, SSLBuffer signedParams,
                                 uint8_t *signature, UInt16 signatureLen)
{
	OSStatus        err;
	...

	if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &serverRandom)) != 0)
		goto fail;
	if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
		goto fail;
		goto fail;
	if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.final(&hashCtx, &hashOut)) != 0)
		goto fail;
	...

fail:
	SSLFreeBuffer(&signedHashes);
	SSLFreeBuffer(&hashCtx);
	return err;
}
Source

Note that going to fail doesn't actually signal failure unless err is non-zero, and that the third goto is unconditional, thus keeping the third if-test from ever running.

According to the source link, there is possibly a compiler option that, had it been used, would have raised a warning about the unreachable code.

12 posted on 02/22/2014 12:22:22 PM PST by cynwoody
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“If you’re using any Apple product and think it’s secure you’re only fooling yourself. Plus they got many of the dumb users on their products so I suspect many of their users are completely owned.”

Since MS OS is used by such a majority of computer users, I imagine “dumb users” are concentrated in Windows.

“Better switch to a more secure OS like ......Windows.”

Oh my gosh!!! I needed a laugh!!


13 posted on 02/22/2014 2:19:31 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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AAPL SUX I will never buy an apple product. Screw those commies. I use Windows 7 and 8. I use a cell phone but any smart phone/tablet will be an android


14 posted on 02/22/2014 2:23:12 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; Still Thinking; ...

19 posted on 02/22/2014 5:17:01 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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