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For all those who say that if you want security, you get a Mac…
New patches have been released for Mac OS X today (which should be downloadable via Mac’s auto update tool). What’s striking is what the vulnerability is, and how it can be exploited:
Included among the patches are repairs to AppKit which prevent malicious users exploiting buffer overflows with carefully crafted .rtf and .doc files, executing malware stored within those files or allowing the coder to add extra user accounts to the system.
Now, malicious code in .doc files is no surprise, but .rtf files?! Rich text?! In the Windows world, the common wisdom is that it’s safer (and more courteous) to send files in e-mail attachments as rtf rather than MS-Word. It’s unbelievable that OS X is vulenrable even in rtf mode!
Terrorist Babies!!!
Our fine US Government is in such a state of incredible paranoia that even infants are being kept off airplanes if their names match or resemble names lsited on the no-fly list. No, seriously…
Ingrid Sanden’s 1-year-old daughter was stopped in Phoenix, Arizona, before boarding a flight home to Washington at Thanksgiving.
“I completely understand the war on terrorism, and I completely understand people wanting to be safe when they fly,” Sanden said. “But focusing the target a little bit is probably a better use of resources.”
Oh I don’t know, Ingrid. That kid could be waiting to unleash a jihad with her trusty sippy cup as a lethal plane-hijacking weapon, and you just don’t know it yet. 🙂
Zorak’s Meal
How NOT to gain labor sympathy
Okay. I understand that sometimes job action is needed to get the attention of management in a labor dispute. However, there are just some industries where unannounced sympathy strikes only serve to make your position VERY unfavorable in the eyes of the public.
Case in point? British Airways. Maybe forcing the cancellation of an entire day’s schedule of flights (i.e. pulling a “United” stunt) got management’s attention, but it turned thousands of passengers who were stranded into people who are going to look upon you with sheer anger. And it’s hard to pay a laborer, unionized or not, if customers are being driven away.