macworld.com — Even though SecureWorks was never able to substantiate their claim that they hacked MacBooks via Apple's wireless drivers, Apple has pro-actively audited their driver code. Today they released an update addressing issues they found internally.
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cotholSep 22, 2006
so, you trust a mac spokesperson would tell the whole truth?
zaph47Sep 22, 2006
I wonder if "The Rock" updated his imac...<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/gaming_news/Wrestler_The_Rock_Is_a_Gamer_w00t">http://digg.com/gaming_news/Wrestler_The_Rock_Is_a_Gamer_w00t</a>
noreturnSep 22, 2006
You trust some "security expert" who never ended up providing any source code or any sort of live demonstration?
Closed AccountSep 22, 2006
yes because they aren't selling me anything, or have anything to lose.
purdoSep 22, 2006
Just because apple is vulnerable to attack doesn't mean it's not good.Apple users stop being so touchy about these things as there are bound to be flaws in your OS. I think this release is probably a direct result of the SecureWorks thing but it doesn't mean anything. Anyone who has anything to do with software/hardware development knows that nothing is infallible.
cotholSep 22, 2006
Sute it sounds much better if apple can say, "hey look we just found this vulnerability last night and fixed it in a few hours, here's the patch!" than admit it took them a few months.
hurfydurfurSep 22, 2006
I'd love to see some examples of the court ruling in favor of "disagreeing with their views". I don't know the specific cases you are talking about .. but let me play devil's advocate and bring up Apple vs Thinksecret. Apple sues because Thinksecret is posting trade secrets. Does the court rule automatically in Apple's favor? No. If Thinksecret posted the source code to Windows, the same would be true. Law, and that's it.If Apple pisses away money on lawsuits that never win, that would be just stupid. The courts decide what is "too litigious". Why would they throw money away in lawsuits for "Microsoft called me names" if they never win?Anyway, please post frivolous lawsuits you are talking about. Wikipedia doesn't have much recent stuff, like in 1988 Apple lost against MS over them copying the "Trash" concept. More recent ones have been _against_ Apple.
boogieSep 23, 2006
A word of caution when doing the Airport update: some users experienced a long wait (on the blue startup screen) YET you can hear the harddisk spin, "it is doing something". I advice users to "repair disk preferences" before they do this update and after using the disk utility, and see that they run, from time to time, the built-in maintenance scripts. (If you do not leave your Mac on at night, use a freeware app like Onyx). I had no problems. Healthy system = healthy responsetime, and I just think Apples uses its common sense to be AHEAD of hackers, instead of waiting for the one who cries havoc...Patches: seen it all the time on my Win machine, ONE from Apple, I can live with :)