On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jeff Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Good point. This is the discovery mechanism that iTunes uses to share > music > > on the subnet. > > Except that I have no need for this and Apple thinks it below them to > even deign to ask the lowly user if they don't want to install > Bonjour. > > > If the iTunes installer starting dropping patches into other applications > > without warning, this would be another thing, but they do not do that. > > It already does this with Bonjour. It installs a networking component > directly into Windows without any prior warning. That's taking pages > from the Real Player handbook. > > > This M$ intrusion and Sony's root-kit exploit are the only cases I know > of > > where a major software company had the balls to try something like this. > > **cough** SAFARI **cough** The Annoyances page that John links to > has a comment from the author about MobileMe doing the same thing. > So Apple is guilty of some of the crimes that the Redmond Menace is guilty of. Both are sinners and deserve a time out for it. Hey mom Steve did it first no Steve did. The problem is that M$ did something that opened a security hole in non-M$ software that people use to avoid their own shoddy product because of similar security holes intrinsic to IE. I don't trust IE due to it's history and only use it for updates and when It can't be avoided. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
