betanews.com — It took security engineers perhaps less than two hours yesterday to introduce Apple's surprise entry in the field of Windows browsers to the big, cruel world of exploits and vulnerabilities, following its introduction yesterday morning at WWDC. As a result, much of the clout Safari had received as the secure browsing alternative is lost
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bimtottJun 13, 2007
I can just picture the brainstorming session at Chiat/Day (Apple's ad agency), according to kamin:"Hey, you guys, we've been really good with the Apple campaign so far, so let's take it one step further. Let's have them develop a product, PURELY for marketing purposes, have the straight-shooting company head put his reputation on the line to sell and hype the product at a branded event, and have it run horrendously ON PURPOSE. Then, days later, we'll wait for the dust to settle, and blame it on their competitor! That'll work GREAT!"
jybaritoneJun 13, 2007
Works fine here. Running xpsp2. Safari is fast, not sure if it's faster than Firefox, but it's certainly better than IE.
nubbaJun 13, 2007
..They probably wanted the browser to look web 2.0-ish by slapping on the BETA name. I mean come on its Apple, being stylish is the number #1 factor.
elguanoJun 13, 2007
Obviously you haven't met Steve Jobs before. Steve, Gualar. Gualar, Steve.
feevesJun 13, 2007
It handled the iframe incorrectly so that it seemed like the commands were coming from the client end. And why should any program expect a malicious command from the front? To put it mildly, this exploit wouldn't exist without Safari having the vulnerability in the first place, regardless of how insecure one may find whatever other program.
tacojohnJun 14, 2007
I've been using it exclusively on 2 systems at work and home and haven't had any issues so far. A dual G5 at work and a MacBook at home. In fact, the Flash performance, dragable tabs, find feature, and increased speed is awesome.Plus, it's beta software, which means it's going to get better.
frostwJun 14, 2007
Grow up dude.
superterranJun 14, 2007
This is a brilliant move for Apple.Kids, gather around. If your a trendy company trying to prove your more serious about security and usability than your competition, but you can't do that because nobody is focusing on hacking your products, what do you do?I'll tell you what to do - you release one of the most vulnerable pieces of software you can think of, like a web browser, on the most used platform in the world, and you let all the dogs eat the hell out of it. You let John C. Dvorak ring Apple's death knell and you let Symantec yell 'I told you so!' and write articles about all the exploits they found within a day of it being released, and then you start securing it. And, you don't just secure the browser, you start porting over Cocoa so the base of the browser is more secure because the browser's more secure. You make it so the apps you want, like iLife, will work on Windows more or less. Then, you start using the knowledge you gained by securing their software on a very exploitable platform, and you apply it to your own. That way you have the best of both worlds. You can release the main selling points for mac in a way where they will be feature complete, without having to maintain two versions of the same software. Then, you can start locking people in to the Mac way of doing things, which will undoubtedly conclude with more hardware sales. Folks, Apple's trying to fight Microsoft on their home turf, Microsoft has no idea what's going on, because they are just as clueless as you are. Settle down and enjoy the show - it's bound to be interesting.Check it - Antivirus software would be better done if they patched the holes in the OS, not scan for code that exploited s**t. Don't let Symantec get under your skin, they depend on s**tty systems for them to make money. When's the last linux box you used with AV software constantly running?
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