Posts by frood 12 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Mar 2011
Some will use VPNs to access completely unregulated sites. Downloading videos and images and sharing them. By UK law this is creating illegal porn and treated accordingly. We’ve made a generation of schoolkids open to our harshest pornography laws pwhilst simultaneously removing any censorship that was there before.
Well done gov UK
“director of a company must act in the way he considers, in good faith, would be most likely to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole“
Members are shareholders. The purpose of a publicly held company is to benefit shareholders. There are some clauses that give a director the right to protect other interests (employees for instance), but broadly speaking the statement that purpose of a public traded company is to maximise profits of it’s shareholders is correct.
Symantec list this as a very low risk, it's been around for months. it does require a level of social engineering, you choose to download it and then choose to ignore a system warning about it being downloaded, and then if you give it the users password it installs. Most macs have the root account disabled and essentially rely on sudo. The latest release, as mentioned, does not require the password to do a limited install. which presumably means you'll be warned whenever it tries to install it's downloaded payload.
Hopefully Oracle will roll the osx release into their main release cycle soon, Java has been depracated on osx since 2010 and has been in the process of being redacted into the main release ever since.
Macs, like Linux, aren't virus immune. But both are a harder target.
Is this even news anymore. Adobe products always seem to fail whatever the platform, whatever the product when the platform is upgraded. That's if they can get the product to work in the first place, look at the 64-bit Flash debacle. And as for GUI incompatibilities due to their own implementation, can I recommend a copy of Object Oriented programming for dummies.
I'm not happy with Apple dropping Rosetta, but I'm not surprised that Adobe's much vaunted intel native CS3 suite wasn't.
Apple finally finishing implementing some basic security measures that were half written in Snow Leopard, golly! The only vaguely interesting bit is that it can now encrypt the entire boot disk (unlike I believe bitlocker, not that I've seen it, a fabled object that only exists on the fanboi and enterprise edition of windows). I use macs, I'm happy with the price and will probably upgrade 'cause of that and not because of this gushing advert
