Hey swordmaker I saw on the news where they said this is also impacting OSX (Mac books) and that there is no fix yet for it.
Please tell me this can’t be true. Hell Microsoft hasn’t had a screw up this bad in over a decade.
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From what I know, it is only iOS.
From what I’ve found OSX users should use chrome or Firefox if you must use an untrusted public network, otherwise you’re OK IF YOURE ON YOUR OWN SECURE HOME NETWORK.
Geez, for-q. Please stop being such an ass and misquoting Swordmaker. He never has said any such thing.
> Hell Microsoft hasn’t had a screw up this bad in over a decade.
You been asleep for a decade? That's not even a good joke, it's just false.
Hate to say it, for-q, but your slurs have become really, really boring and your inaccurate comments sound stupider with every retort. Since you're probably not actually stupid, why not try sounding more intelligent, and discuss the problem that way? It's easy:
- Apple screwed the pooch on some SSL cert checking code, opening up a vulnerability.
- They were able to roll out a fix for iOS devices very rapidly, and did so.
- The fix for OS-X (I assume actually for Safari) will take a little longer, perhaps because of the greater testing required in the much wider environment of OS-X (iOS is a fairly tightly controlled embedded environment).
You don't want to compare that error and response to numerous MS security screwups of the last decade, or MS's typical response time, trust me. Everybody screws up from time to time, and this one, while potentially serious, is nothing like the worst of the bunch.
Seriously, for-q. Get a grip. You're embarrassing yourself. Have a great evening.
Microsoft has its share, but the worst one right now is Adobe Flash, a far worse vulnerability than this. Take a look at the top three on this page (from 2/21):
Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.341 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1628 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1628, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1628 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2014.That's a very serious problem affecting Windows, MacOS and Linux - allowing a root kit to be installed without you doing anything, and without any visible sign. I strongly suggest installing ClickToFlash or something similar at least.
This Apple flaw is only a problem if you're on a public, unsecured network. If you're on a secure hotspot, or connected to a wired network (as I am at the moment), there's no vulnerability. At any rate, I'm sure Apple will roll out a MacOS fix quickly - it should be an easy one at least.