This is potentially disruptive to say the least. If this is not FUD (Besides having to eat crow after having so much faith in Apple … sorry Dan!) I can only hope that Apple gets off their Duff and addresses all the old familiar problems yesterday .
I find it hard to believe in some ways, because OS X is based on FreeBSD, where these corrections are beans instead of beside eternity in computer time …
Ancient fault leave OS X vulnerable:? ZDNet Australia: News: Security:
OS X contains unpatched vulnerabilities of a type that was provided on alternative operating systems more than a decade ago, according to a security researcher credited with finding many bugs in Apple’s increasingly popular platform.Neil Archibald, senior security researcher at software security specialists Suresec, told ZDNet Australia that as Apple’s market share increases, OS X comes under more scrutiny by security experts, which he believes will find lots of “low hanging bugs.”
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