Apple slips out security patches while world goes gaga over watches While everyone was losing their mind over expensive watches, Apple sneaked out security fixes for iOS phones and tablets, and OS X computers. Both the OS X Security Update 2015-002 and iOS 8.2 address critical flaws. Leading the charge is a patch to squish the FREAK bug in the two operating systems' SSL/TLS code. Disclosed …
Technically a larval insect and not a bug...
Which just goes to show that Apple produces an immature platform whereas others can support full grown moths.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1683809/strawhorse-attacking-the-macos-and-ios-software.pdf
we always thought the complier **could** be pwned,
wonder what the NSA kext for keylogging is,
and how can Apple reverse an Intelligence Community fork of Xcode 4.1 (etcetra)
I'm no Apple fanboy but in my experience Apple stuff does generally "just work" and I certainly prefer it to Windows for work. I really dislike the way they handle the POSIX stuff and replace it with MacPorts. They have in the past been notoriously lax in updating the parts of it that they ship with the OS but they do generally get round to it. Microsoft's patching process is more difficult but that's largely their own fault in the way they mix applications and OS.
All the hype and publicity for the iWrist thingy is brilliant cover for slipping out anything that might take the shine off their products, like bug and security fixes.
And boy! What hype there has been. Even the BBC seems to be infected, An article on their news website today that purports to be questioning whether there is a market for this stuff is just one long puff, with no attempt whatsoever to find out if anyone wants the ithingy, or what they might really use it for. Just a final jokey comment at the end, saying that kids don't wear watches, to justify the whole item.
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