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Safari RSS vulnerability might reveal your personal data

tuaw.com — When reports of security issues in Apple's Safari browser come over the transom, they get our attention. When they're exploitable in both the Mac and Windows versions of Safari, they get our full and undivided attention. When the person reporting them is Brian Mastenbrook (credited with discovering multiple previous vulnerabilities in Mac OS X)...

Who dugg this? Made popular Jan 13, 2009

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  • CoreyTamas, on 01/13/2009, -1/+31Dammit, Apple! If I wanted my personal data handed out without my knowledge, I'd join Facebook!
  • angusm, on 01/13/2009, -0/+21Browsers are for weenies. Real men telnet to port 80 and type their requests manually.
  • jonesyno, on 01/13/2009, -1/+19impenetrable pods. .. . we shall call them. . iPods. . .
  • thelastcivilian, on 01/13/2009, -2/+20________________ (insert name of whatever browser you use) is much more secure.
  • inactive, on 01/13/2009, -4/+16Can anybody tell me why a Mac user would use Safari over Firefox?

    AdBlock Plus alone is worth switching, in my opinion.
  • darkism, on 01/13/2009, -4/+13Better rendering engine, far faster and much more Mac-like.
  • serif69, on 01/13/2009, -0/+8Mosaic
  • thelastcivilian, on 01/13/2009, -0/+8Apparently the guy who found the vulnerability.
  • Angostura, on 01/13/2009, -1/+8Proper Keychain integration for one/
  • MeatMountain, on 01/13/2009, -2/+8This is why I never use the Internet.
  • inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6
  • Ouze, on 01/13/2009, -7/+13"When the person reporting them is Brian Mastenbrook (credited with discovering multiple previous vulnerabilities in Mac OS X)"

    Buried as inaccurate. Anyone who has ever read Digg comments knows there are no vunerabilities in OSX.
  • clickmyface, on 01/13/2009, -0/+6...and FredFredrickson shall make heavily outdated claims following an ellipses...
  • SteveMax, on 01/13/2009, -0/+5Besides, telnet to port 80 is also MUCH more secure!
  • wilhoitm, on 01/13/2009, -4/+9I use Safari as a tribute to WebKit!
  • sean2390, on 01/13/2009, -0/+5Internet Explorer! :P
  • clickmyface, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4flaccid with rage!
  • hamobu, on 01/13/2009, -9/+13Yet another incident that may help apple fanboys SFTU about how secure their platform is.
  • diggnidy, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4
  • DMXell, on 01/13/2009, -3/+7@Aupajo: Your comment made me laugh, but for a different reason.

    I use Safari as my main web browser, with no add-ons installed (contrary to popular belief, Safari actually does have Add-ons, and they're all quite decent). Here's my reasoning which will pretty much debunk your attempt to stereotype Safari users: Firefox is a bloated piece of *****. Honestly, if I did ever decide to use another browser, it'd be Opera because it's light-weight and it's the thing that invented your "awesomebar." I don't use Firefox because I'm an interwebs n00b.

    No, I don't use it because a) the add-ons make it use crap loads more RAM, thus slowing it down. B) The gecko rendering engine is inherently slower and more difficult to program for than Webkit. And c) I am sick of users like yourself that think anyone who uses any other web browser is innately a lesser being to yourself. It's called opinion and the ability to choose what we want to use. Deal with it. You're not superior just because you like Firefox and choose to use it.
  • omnivector, on 01/13/2009, -2/+6WebKit's just a better engine. It's faster and more correct, for me. Not to mention firefox's UI is so out of place that it drives me up a wall. Did I mention it has no native integration with things like the Keychain to store my passwords?
  • Matt2k, on 01/13/2009, -0/+4No. Real men telnet to port 443

  • CoreyTamas, on 01/13/2009, -0/+3Ah, Fred. I can set my watch by you showing up and trying to make it personal.
  • smilgy, on 01/13/2009, -1/+4I agree.
  • Anand999, on 01/13/2009, -5/+8Firefox doesn't "fit in" visually as well as Safari. There is another Mozilla variant that is targetted towards Macs that is a better fit:

    http://caminobrowser.org/

    Now, not using a Mac, I don't know what Camino does that a skin for Firefox wouldn't. I'm guess it's more than just a simple skin change for someone to go through the effort of creating Camino though.
  • inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+4Liar.
  • mrBitch, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3Ooooh, you internet genius you... you caught MeatMountain out!
  • L0NER, on 01/13/2009, -8/+11But macs are impenetrable pods of security.
  • mrBitch, on 01/14/2009, -0/+3@CoreyTamas RE: " I think when the STFU cards are handed out, they will probably go to the users of a platform where security leaks are the rule and not the exception."


    Zing!
  • hardeep1singh, on 01/14/2009, -1/+3No, You are an idiot. What's written above is a fact. Ask someone from IT industry about the kind of questions people ask.
  • hagfish70, on 01/13/2009, -5/+7Who actually uses Safari?
  • clickmyface, on 01/13/2009, -1/+3Just launching Safari is faster, for one. Webkit runs quite well.

    Adblock plus is ok, but I all I care to rid is pop-ups and Safari does that just fine. Honestly, i'm fine with on-page ads. You should be too. Most of the web is free to read, and bandwidth is quite expensive. Blocking a sites opportunity to generate ad revenue to recoup their costs will absolutely not serve you in any way in the long run. Plus, there are hot chicks in ads.
  • Cowicide, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2Bawww.... are you down because another piece of spyware, adware, virus, trojan, malware thingy got up in your system like a bug in your ass? I feel for you.
  • kitsua, on 01/14/2009, -0/+2Firefox 3 looks great in OSX. Better than Safari in my opinion. Like a real native app.
  • PathDaemon, on 01/13/2009, -1/+2I'm not sure that I can.

    A lot of details in Safari's interface were just done right, and the few addons that exist for it do everything I need. I've extensively used both browsers (Firefox extensions and all) and prefer Safari (on the Mac, at least).
  • CoreyTamas, on 01/13/2009, -8/+9I think when the STFU cards are handed out, they will probably go to the users of a platform where security leaks are the rule and not the exception.
  • KevinRosa, on 01/13/2009, -4/+5it all started with your breed of MS haters so shut up whiner
    your sarcasm doesn't impress me
  • CoreyTamas, on 01/13/2009, -6/+7"________________ (insert name of whatever browser you use except Internet Explorer) is much more secure."

    Fixed it for you.
  • mrBitch, on 01/21/2009, -0/+1@ hardeep1singh RE: " Yeah, that's why I have +3 and you -1 "

    Wow, you think that idiotic diggers voting you up magically turns your brain farts into fact and thoughtful discussion?

    Not only are you an idiot, but your attempt to validate your idiocy via digg votes makes you a clueless idiot.
  • Aupajo, on 01/13/2009, -4/+5Firefox is great for "power users". Addons, awesomebar, etc. are awesome.

    But a lot of people don't know how to use addons, don't know why they should, can't get to grips with the awesomebar, still type every URL into Google because *that's how they've always done it*.

    Spreading Firefox is a great cause, but you have to concede for some people it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

    Safari's lightweight, opens faster, renders faster, and has a UI that stays out of your way. For some people, that's perfect, but probably not for you. Safari wasn't built with you in mind.

    As a web dev though, WebKit is a better rendering engine than Gecko IMO.
  • hardeep1singh, on 01/14/2009, -1/+2Macs are secure because hackers and virus makers ignore it since 90% of the world doesn't use it.
  • mrBitch, on 01/14/2009, -2/+3Your comment betrays your utter inability to understand why *nix based OS are more secure BY DESIGN over any and all Microsoft authored OS.
  • gr8lyrics, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1I have switched to google reader. Had been using Safari RSS reader for last 4 years.
  • awolfe91, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1Chuck Norris can telnet to port 666
  • Kyan, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1But please tell mw (and I'm serious), will setting my default browser to Webkit solve this problem?
  • awolfe91, on 01/15/2009, -0/+1Indeed.
  • hardeep1singh, on 01/14/2009, -1/+2They don't use Safari or Mac, they just access internet by cliking on the Internet icon on their shiny new Apple laptop.

    sometimes they also wonder why the website doesn't look exactly the way it does at work.
  • mrBitch, on 01/14/2009, -2/+2Have you even used a dedicated RSS reader application? Are you an idiot?
  • hagfish70, on 01/13/2009, -11/+11People use Safari?
  • hagfish70, on 01/14/2009, -1/+1I'm in the IT industy, (Sys Admin) and sorry that is NOT a fact. Although I prefer to use firefox or IE, safari doesn't really change the layout of a site when compared to other browsers.
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