On 03 Jan 2015, at 19:22 , Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 3, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I do remember all of my computers recently having a message panel pop up >> that said something about a security update. This was the first time that I >> recall thinking that the update had been performed without asking for my >> permission. > > Yup, everybody saw this, and indeed it was the first time. Not a good > precedent.
Why would you say that? It was a remote code-execution with privilege elevation bug against a service that is running on the majority of OS X machines. It doe not get any more critical than that. Machines with an patched ntp were, quite literally, 100% exploitable. >> Are you saying that perhaps the update produced this behavior? I suppose >> it's possible, though only one of my computers is having this problem. >> Could the bug be hardware-specific? > > I guess it’s a possibility that the update had something to do with the > behavior, I seriously doubt it. > but my money is on some different cause. Unfortunately, I can’t say what > that cause might me. He mentioned an “admin” so maybe someone pushed out some settings? -- "Send beer, words simply can't adequately express your gratitude" -- James Sedgwick _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
