Microsoftie to Apple: clean up your security act

all dude is probably trying to say is, is that the situation for OS X will get worse if you don't watch out, if market share increases, if more people are dual booting or using Windows apps on the same machine, and if more people are using intel macs, where buffer overflows and other holes, might show up differently.

Complacency is every bit as bad as paranoia.

A Microsoft employee lecturing Apple about security is like OJ Simpson lecturing a WEAVE convention about Domestic Violence.

It's not conveniently listed with the main RSS feeds, but there is an RSS feed of security announcements:
http://rss.lists.apple.com/security-announce.rss

Conveniently listed on the "mailing lists" RSS feeds page:
http://rss.lists.apple.com/

Yes, Apple could do better. *Anything* can be improved. However, this post deserves exactly one response: "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones."

Which would you rather have: a reliable car and a crappy mechanic, or a crappy car and a great mechanic? Thanks for your concern, Mr. Microsoftie, but I'll take my "No viruses in the wild in 5 years" OS over your swiss-cheese OS any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

PS: I can't believe he said "We work really hard to help ensure our updates are of a high quality so people can install them." There have been *plenty* of cases where MS updates broke stuff.

Wait?! Are you even allowed to say Microsoft and Security in the same sentence? "Won't that like, tear a hole in the universe?"

There is no RSS feed related to Apple security & update issues? Oh my god.
Like that is something we really actually have to worry about.

On critical systems you just install the update a few days later after checking a few sites for signs of issues. Not the most productive, but hey, that's what we have right now. So, he has a point.

But, I think there are less than a handful of updates where a revised update was needed. You have to put things in perspective. At MS they can start a full fledged news network about bugs, patches, vulnerabilities, etc.

Ho hum...another week, another IE security issue:
http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=183702066&subSection=Browsers
Less time blogging, more time getting their own house in order.

I'll bet they don't do an RSS feed because they have an excellent update system already in place that's built-in. I don't see what you would need the RSS feed for.

Thanks for the Simpsons reference! Made me laugh this morning.

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