Submission + - Mac OS X Leopard's firewall wide open! (heise-security.co.uk)
rpp3po writes: German tech magazine Heise analyzed Leopard's new firewall and made some shocking discoveries. Even when you set it to "block all incoming connections" at least 4 ports are left wide open (ntpd, netbios, mdns). Additionally "Apple uses ntpd 4.2.2, the current version is 4.2.4. It is not clear whether any of the bug fixes are relevant in this scenario and if Apple back-ported fixes from more recent versions."
Submission + - No Java 6 in Leopard Retail! (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Remember how they baited developers to the Mac platform by announcing most comprehensive Java support? How they advertised true interoperability for developers, which just happend to look much sexier on a Mac? All BS! They are following Microsoft's path now and try tie you to their flashy XCode platform. That's a great tool if you're developing for a Mac — as Visual studio is for Windows... But I'll dump both happily anytime for a fully loaded Eclipse — supported and steadily improved by a tremendous community!
Submission + - Mac OS X Leopard leaked to P2P networks (insanelymac.com)
An anonymous reader writes: To prevent this happen Apple even withheld the gold master from ADC select members, who pay multi $1000 for access to prereleases. Trackers like The Pirate Bay and several Usenet groups carry the full dvd image as of today. ADC members are going to be upset that their expensive premium payments are not even worthy enough to get prereleases before filesharers. This http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=66936 forum entry contains numerous successful reports, but no warez links.
Submission + - What is it like to be a fake uploader? (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "...I have been askeding myself for a long time. What makes people do this? It obviously isn't solely the professional business of anti-p2p companies. Often you find copyrighted material just renamed, porn, and sometimes very benign or even funny stuff. So what's the motivation behind it? As I couldn't ask anybody, I just tried it myself. And I know I shouldn't say this publicly, but it was (and still is) quite amusing."
Or how to make hundreds of people send terabytes of zeros to each other. Read on your favorite newswire, that you are being fooled at the very moment!
Or how to make hundreds of people send terabytes of zeros to each other. Read on your favorite newswire, that you are being fooled at the very moment!
