Jerry, take a deep breath! Marta On May 24, 2004, at 18:25, KR'sListMail wrote:
> Jerry, > > Thanks for the tips! Since I am ol' timer, (Apple Third Party Software > Developer) I still get the security advisors, every time they are > issued. But I didn't understand the true nature of this security hole, > until this weekend. I do believe it is the worse one I have ever seen > in the Mac Interface--and I am surprised it was overlooked until now. > I can only assume Apple didn't want anyone to know about it, while > they figure out how they will change the architecture --since it is an > architectural problem, and that is what is going to have to be fixed. > And thus it will take along time to fix it, and will probably require > a whole new issue to the OS, don't you think? > > As far as myself is concerned, I don't go into the dark dens of of the > net to play doom, collect porno, or music, or software - all those > dangerous crack sites, so I don't share the risks that others web > users do. My major concern is of the sites I design interface for, and > most importantly, the users I host over. Some of those Users, aren't > as well behaved as I am.... ;-\ (They seem to get themselves into > squirrely situations sometimes). So the more I know about any web > nasties directly from Apple, the more I can watch out for security > violations of my Apple Users, to their passcodes and accounts. > > So Apple, keeping us in the dark, is not a good thing, and I wish I > had known about this back in February. If fact might have saved me a > week of work, in my search for the source of a cracking event that one > of my users had.... Eearily similar, in that the help page popped up. > > In the meantime, As far as safer Mac web surfing goes? I believe one > can always drop back and boot up in System 9 instead, and use the > browser that way. That is probably the safest way for Mac users to go, > (if they surf dangerously) until a real fix is had. > > Yours, > Kay > > > > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
