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Yet more proof that Apple products are not and have never been secure
2015 Oct 5, 9:41pm 2,062 views 6 comments
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OH NO! I'm heartbroken. And this from one of our best outsourcing American "Corporations are People".
What shall I do with my $19.95 phone?
Bellingham Bill
2016 Mar 6, 6:19pm
I just took care of this on my OS X box, the one I'm typing on now in fact.
If Transmission.app were sold from the app store it would have been forced to run in a sandbox and thus not even in danger for this attack.
But it's not, the app's installer somehow got hacked and the attackers inserted their own binary which installed an executable in the user's Library directory.
This executable was actually signed, and Apple has revoked this malware's ability to run on all (internet-connected) Macs now.
Apple's systems are working pretty well here, actually.
If Apple forced all Mac apps to run sandboxed, Dan'd complain about that instead.
Dan8267
2016 Mar 6, 7:52pm
If Apple forced all Mac apps to run sandboxed, Dan'd complain about that instead.
Depends on whether or not their sandbox was a shitty implementation as most of their products are.
Strategist
2016 Mar 6, 8:19pm
Yet more proof that Apple products are not and have never been secure
Can you prove Apple is not the best? Good luck.
Bellingham Bill
2016 Mar 6, 8:32pm
Funny thing is, the Mac OS was in fact pretty shitty in the 80s.
Everything else in the PC space was a lot worse though, so that made it superior.
1990s featured the rise of Linux from hobby project to real-world x86 OS, but also the development of NT and OS X.
Microsoft spent the 2000-2015 timeframe getting its user base onto Win2k, XP, Vista (cough), 7 (ok), 8 (cough), and 10, which is OK again.
Compared to iOS, OS X has been on the back burner for Apple, but I still like it a lot.
The UI is great, the APIs are pretty good, and it does what I need it to do.
I don't like Macs all that much now, though, so I'm running 10.11 on a Haswell box I assembled from newegg, LOL.
Cost like $600, and is giving me twice the performance for half the cost of the Mac Mini. Pretty close to the Mac Pro, for 1/5 the cost.
Dan8267
2016 Mar 6, 8:45pm
Can you prove Apple is not the best? Good luck.
One cannot prove a value judgement. I cannot prove that shit tastes bad, so go ahead and eat some.
They've just been too unpopular to bother targeting until now.
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