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Blue Lego isn’t all bad…

A poor Adobe employee is throwing its toys out of the iPram right now over the lack of flash support on the iPad. However that little plug brick has one major advantage … for a change on the iPhone Apple appear to have done a reasonable job on security (although with their tight-lipped approach to discussing security it’s hard to tell). Adobe on the other hand, well … Acrobat is the major vector for drive by malware right now, Flash has its own problems and the Shockwave security update last month had users uninstalling old versions and then installing...

posted @ Monday, February 01, 2010 11:24 AM | Feedback (0)

Security by insanity : Apple Password Guidelines.

From page 52 of the new Leopard security guidelines; Enter a new password and verify it when prompted.This password can be up to eight characters.Do not use the capital letter “U” in an Open Firmware password. According to an Apple support doc (if you do kiss booting your machine goodbye; - darn, not the case) If you used Open Firmware Password utility to create a password that contains the capital letter "U", your password will not be recognized during the startup process (when you try to access Startup Manager, for example). Excuse me while I giggle insanely .......

posted @ Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:17 PM | Feedback (4)