Apple users: before you snicker about the Intel Hyper-Threading vulnerability, take note: the Dashboard in Tiger apparently has its own glaring security hole.
A growing number of Mac experts are sounding the alarm over the dangers of widgets — which can carry Unix commands that could be run invisibly from within a widget.
“It’s really just wrong and stupid of (Apple) to not give a regular user a way to take widgets out of Dashboard,” said Stephan Meyers, an unemployed artist and developer who was one of the first to publicize the hole. “It just flat-out says you cannot remove a widget from Dashboard. That’s just dumb.”
So today, on Friday the 13th no less, we all have issues to worry about, regardless of operating system we use. Joy.