projects.info-pull.com— The second in the Month of Apple Bugs series has been released. This time, it's a vulnerability in a non-Apple product...
Jan 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
Despite what he says in the FAQ, the general feeling with this "30 bugs in 30 days" thing is that there are large, unaddressed flaws within the OS X operating system (or bundled Apple applications).I don't think anyone has denied the fact that 3rd party applications may open up OS X to outside attacks, and Apple doesn't claim that it doesn't either.
You have to wonder who's really the smuggest...Mac users, for pointing out facts like that there's no working Mac OS X virus spreading in the wild while there's tons of them for XP? Or these guys and the zealots that support them, going out of their way to publicize vulnerabilities, with that "we'll show them!" attitude?Often, trying to counter smugness result in even more smugness. (And that may even include my comment!)
I was really excited and hopeful that these guys would find some genuine security problems with OS X. I'm a Mac user and thought this was a great way to improve the security of an already secure operating system.But this is just lame. Is this the best they can do? Are we ever going to see a bug or exploit in the actual operating system? You would think they would lead off with a doozy. Neither one of these exploits worked on my Mac Pro (I don't even have VLC installed).The sad thing for them is that this is going to have the exact opposite effect -- smug Mac users are going to go "See. OS X is bulletproof. These guys ran out of bugs after day 1."
Closed AccountJan 3, 2007
It looks like they've already ran out of ideas. What's next, they're gonna blame Apple for a bug in Windows Vista?
macaddct1984Jan 3, 2007
Despite what he says in the FAQ, the general feeling with this "30 bugs in 30 days" thing is that there are large, unaddressed flaws within the OS X operating system (or bundled Apple applications).I don't think anyone has denied the fact that 3rd party applications may open up OS X to outside attacks, and Apple doesn't claim that it doesn't either.
imac79Jan 3, 2007
The dude pointing this s**t out is lame as hell. VLC is non of Apples responsibility. Get a life dick!!
delmonteJan 3, 2007
You have to wonder who's really the smuggest...Mac users, for pointing out facts like that there's no working Mac OS X virus spreading in the wild while there's tons of them for XP? Or these guys and the zealots that support them, going out of their way to publicize vulnerabilities, with that "we'll show them!" attitude?Often, trying to counter smugness result in even more smugness. (And that may even include my comment!)
t3hxJan 3, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/">http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/</a>... and the month of Apple Fixes!
jkokeJan 3, 2007
I was really excited and hopeful that these guys would find some genuine security problems with OS X. I'm a Mac user and thought this was a great way to improve the security of an already secure operating system.But this is just lame. Is this the best they can do? Are we ever going to see a bug or exploit in the actual operating system? You would think they would lead off with a doozy. Neither one of these exploits worked on my Mac Pro (I don't even have VLC installed).The sad thing for them is that this is going to have the exact opposite effect -- smug Mac users are going to go "See. OS X is bulletproof. These guys ran out of bugs after day 1."