Re: Mac OS X hacked in under 30 minutes

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Richard H. Fifarek wrote:
> 	To some extent, yes, which is unfortunate because it gives users a  
> false sense of security (pun intended) and they tend to be less  
> diligent about patches, safe computing practices, etc.  There are  
> some known issues on OS X that remain unpatched:
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/ 
> Ancient_flaws_leave_OS_X_vulnerable_/0,2000061744,39234678,00.htm

Unfortunately, that article was rather light on specifics.   
Personally I'd like to see a list of vulnerabilities, e.g. in  
bugzilla or similar bug tracker.  That would do two things: 1) make  
users aware of the vulnerabilities and 2) pressure Apple to fix them.

Come to think of it, isn't OS X based on Darwin?  Does Darwin use  
some kind of bug tracking system?  Does such a list exist and I'm  
unaware?

This looks a link in the right direction:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/bugs.html

Regards,
- Robert
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