Comment Its not unreasonable & Landon is contributing! (Score 1) 177
If Apple would be as slow about the fix as MS was about the WMF fix, I might indeed install a patch from a 3rd party (as I chose to do for WMF).
There are pros and cons to third party patches (and you have identified a possible negative case), but there solid ways to validate the decision with the security community, even if you can't read the code yourself.
I think its really cool that Landon is spending his time writing counters and taking a decidedly positive action in this investigation.
Personally, I never heard of APE before this, and knowing something about that software is already a positive result for me, even if I only disable rtsp handler (which I have done).
There are pros and cons to third party patches (and you have identified a possible negative case), but there solid ways to validate the decision with the security community, even if you can't read the code yourself.
I think its really cool that Landon is spending his time writing counters and taking a decidedly positive action in this investigation.
Personally, I never heard of APE before this, and knowing something about that software is already a positive result for me, even if I only disable rtsp handler (which I have done).
