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SecurityFocus: Ending the Free Lunch

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“In the last week of October, Apple debuted its latest
installment of the BSD-based operating system Mac OS X 10.3, also
known as Panther. With it came many new features, as well as some
security fixes.

“And not just a couple security fixes, several of them. All
told, nine security fixes ranging from problems in Mac OS X
applications such as finder, to freely available applications such
as OpenSSH.

“The security patches created a huge controversy when they came
out, owing to a rumor that the only way to get the fix would be to
purchase the upgrade, a $129 outlay…”

Complete
Story

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