From: Philip Stortz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 10.2.8 downgraded
fyi, imho, i'd stay far, far away from haxies. i read a lot of thier page, they aren't
mac fans, they are arrogant, and frankly i don't think they give a squat about much of
anything. i certainly would not trust thier encryption garbage, security through
obscurity means they don't know enough about encryption to implement it correctly, and
good encryption algorithms can go bad easilly, which is why the original, and doubtless
later wireless encryption is not as secure as promised, though it doesn't much matter for
most home stuff. seriously, they talk about thier encrytpion being good, and then refuse
to name the algorithm under the misimpression that secrecry about the algorithm somehow
makes it more secure, it doesn't. i'm on a lot of security list, "secrecy" is the mark of
snake oil in security, and the haxies in general are not the type of thing that will
enhance reliability, nor would i expect them to not break upgrades, and break them badly.
Perhaps we're talking about different things here with the word haxie? I was talking about the Unsanity products like ClearDock, FruitMenu, CeePeeU, WindowShadeX, etc.
I've had almost no problems with them other than minor things, and it was Unsanity that was early to point out the problems with Apple's Installer and write their own to fix it, and to point out how OS X isn't compiled correctly for RISC processors and thus nearly 30% slower than it could be, so obviously I don't think we're talking about the same things? The only "encryption" thing I know about Unsanity is how they moaned about Apple already having iChat encryption for their own internal usage, but not enabling it for the masses (probably with some government patriot act coercion). What 'haxies' were you speaking of? I agree on the "secrecy" thing, and I've seriously been contemplating converting to Linux simply to because I agree with the concept. I also find Apple's behavior over the years to be less than admirable; first snatching Xerox Park's GUI concepts, and then trying to fight legal battles over Trash Can icons on the desktop, as if they actually invented that themselves. Now they 'harvest' open source software to make closed source 'secret' additions. This mailing list Unsupported OS X is a testament to Apple's greed, and Open Source ingenuity! Kris
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