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Apple Securty Update 2002-08-02

If you would have actually read anything about the trojan, you'd know it doesn't affect the binaries built from the sources at all. Its simple a small little program that runs as part of the compilation of openssh. So even if apple had built from the trojaned sources, they'd be screwed, not you.

(Now, I guess if you wanted to get real picky, someone could have used the backdoor created by the compilation to modify the binaries, if they did it at just the right time.)
 
Hmmmm....

Well, I'll tell you what, between the MULTIPLE security updates recently, and the new .MAC scheme, I almost feel like a Windows user. bbrrrrr. Sorry for the blasphemy. 🙂

Gus
 
Re: Hmmmm....

Originally posted by Gus
Well, I'll tell you what, between the MULTIPLE security updates recently, and the new .MAC scheme, I almost feel like a Windows user. bbrrrrr. Sorry for the blasphemy. 🙂

Gus
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I see a big difference in the security updates.. Windows updates are of the "we screwed up in our 20-year-old DOS-based proprietary coding, and now that someone discovered this, we're trying to cover our asses" variety, whereas Apple's are of the "look, we're giving you all these cool industry-standard open-source tools, and open-source being what it is, there's always people trying to improve it, so we're giving you these improvements as quickly as we can" variety.

That is the longest sentence I've ever written. 🙂

Now, as for .mac... 🙁
 
Re: Re: Hmmmm....

Originally posted by Apple][Forever


I see a big difference in the security updates.. Windows updates are of the "we screwed up in our 20-year-old DOS-based proprietary coding, and now that someone discovered this, we're trying to cover our asses" variety, whereas Apple's are of the "look, we're giving you all these cool industry-standard open-source tools, and open-source being what it is, there's always people trying to improve it, so we're giving you these improvements as quickly as we can" variety.

That is the longest sentence I've ever written. 🙂

Now, as for .mac... 🙁
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I agree. My copy of Internet Explorer on the PC has been updated more times than I can count. There are sometimes several updates a month.

MS have always compromised security in favor of ease-of-use. That's why it's possible for a client application, ie. the browser, to gain full control of my machine. Scary.

(Of course, it's also quite disturbing to find out that Apple didn't build in certification into their Software Update feature until very recently).
 
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