Former Apple engineer offers fixes for Month of Apple bugs silliness

Well the month of bugs must not be going so well if they have to target a third party product like VLC.. Apple is not responsible for bugs in VLC.. afterall, it's developed simultaneously for several platforms..

If Apple release a bug fix every single day or officially publicly state they are investigating the claims, it means they are admitting that their "secure" platform is exploitable for a whole month. This doesn't do good for their reputations.

Getting someone to "unofficially" fix these bugs in the mean time won't damage Apple's reputation (who knows, the engineer may be under the order of Apple to do this) while satisfying security-concerned customers. Then Apple can officially release a security update later (after the month) that people won't associate with the exploitable month.

That's what I think, may be it is completely wrong...

RSS?

There isn't one at the info-pull site, but they've also taken out a site at Blogger called "Apple Fun". That has an RSS feed.

Warning: do not visit this site if you are of a nervous disposition. It has a somewhat juvenile cartoon on the right-hand site that some Apple users may find offensive:

http://applefun.blogspot.com/

The month of Apple bugs site has no RSS feed that I was able to find, but this engineer's site does. Needless to say, I will be reading his fix articles and mostly forgetting about reading the actual bug ones.

If they wanted to be relevant they should at least catch up to modern-day meme-spreading.

Comment #1 is quite true. Gotta love OS X but after working with them periodically I can also relate that my experience has been that getting them to fix *anything* is like pulling teeth.

I totally agree with Ernest's comment! We need to take security seriously as the platform gets more and more popular. Why are typical Mac users so adverse to this way of thinking?

It's not clear to me what Apple should do here. Release a security fix via Software Update every day for a month?

Because an independent engineer can develop a workaround without the hassle of the exhaustive testing an official patch requires. Also he can start work on it faster because instead of submitting the bug to Apple like a normal person, they are announcing it to the world in an obvious publicity stunt, modeled on the idiocy of the wireless driver issue.

Because apple drags their feet when it comes to fixes. Someone needs to put a fire under their butt to get anything done.

maybe because theses persons totally bypass Apple own management and planning
and also try to ignore than Vlc developpers have tools to inform about bugs.

http://www.videolan.org/support/index.html

maybe...