May 21, 2009

++Gee! A security alert for all versions of Mac OS X++

»The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, as fans of Douglas Adams know, is a creature so mind-bogglingly stupid that it assumes that if you can’t see it, then it can’t see you. They are natives of the planet Traal, but on Earth are often found in Cupertino, address One Infinite Way. (Leave it to an RBB to name its lair after a programming error.)«


Angela Gunn, in: Apple, Java, and the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (Betanews, May 20):

Pretending a system is secure does not, alas, make it so.

See also (inter alia):
- Macworld: Close the Java security hole in many browsers (May 20)
- Heise (in German): Exploit für ungepatchte Lücke in Mac OS X [Update] (20. Mai)

Ladies and Gentlemen, you and we have a serious problem now!

Bullshit

By Aysun-Craig at 11:55 am CET | Category: Great sayings, In Flagranti
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