ping & spin please :-)
No, none of this is new, or news worthy. This is FUD Season in advance of the World Wide Developers Conference starting Monday and always happens in advance of Apple's major announcements. Many of the assertions in this article are just wrong. . . Others are exaggerated. It is basically published for the purposes of FUD. . . Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
In addition, for-q-Clinton, not a single one of the vulnerabilities mentioned in the article except the text crashes has resulted in any effect on users. . . and the text crashed will not result in any possibility of lost data, it’s merely a denial of service attack, easily avoided. The current one requires that the attacker gain physical possession of the computer to exploit. . . while serious on a singular user basis, it is not a major system wide problem that could effect even a few hundreds of users out of the tens of millions that could be affected were it remotely exploitable.
The same applied to the Google discovered vulnerability last year.
Hi for-q. Geez, don't you ever tire of this silly exercise?
Honestly, I'm not at all impressed by this story, as it's just a slam in the form of rehashed stuff everybody already knows. It brings nothing whatsoever to the discussion except crap to throw.
Microsoft has been the target of this kind of pointless, dumb crap writing for many years, and it's annoying as hell. Apple is now the target of crap that's just as pointless and dumb, and it's annoying too.
You see, regardless of who the target is, it's just too freakin' easy to throw a bunch of crap, and then when the target responds, throw more crap and claim that the reponses are all spin. There's no arguing with crap, you can't win, it's like wrestling with pigs.
Of course there's a grain of truth in any of the things mentioned in this story, but they're all twisted out of shape. Even you must admit the slant of the writing is egregious -- I found it hard to read without either laughing or cursing at its obvious bias and blatant stupidity.
Now, it's true I think Apple (like Microsoft, Google, and others) could improve their response to bug reports. That goes without saying, because no company has what I would call a sterling history of dealing with such things. I'm not defending Apple, per se, any more than I defend Microsoft or Google when they're the target of a slam.
The important thing to take away from this thread is that the slam article is comprised of old stories, nothing new or interesting, just some tired meat for the anti-Apple folks to slaver and drool over.
Have a good time, I guess. I'm going to find a thread that's interesting. Nothing personal, you understand. But I truly have a hard time understanding how you never seem to tire of this stuff. See ya on the flip-flop.