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From: Rowland McDonnell on 21 Jun 2010 13:54
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote:
>
> >Nancy <me10(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Wow!
> >>
> >> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-issues-stealth-anti-malware-se
> >> curity-update/8673
> >
> >Do Apple list every single file they update in a point release? I'd be
> >surprised if they did, there must be hundreds if not thousands.
> >
> >And if not, then calling this a 'stealth' update is disingenuous. It's
> >no more a 'stealth' update than all the other files that are updated at
> >the same time.

They're all a bit stealthy: we've been trained to accept these firms
doing things we don't know about to our computers as if it's somehow
okay.

But why are you responding to the irritating schoolboy troll who posts
here under the name `Nancy'? He's just winding people up, that's all.

Oh, winding people up is *your* game, sorry, I forget, sorry, sorry.

I don't know why the boy troll posts as Nancy, but he does like alleging
misogyny at the drop of a hat...

> > They do put out Security Updates between point updates,
> >that patch vulnerabilities - is that admitting that they have to protect
> >the Mac against malware? Probably - and the point is?

The point is that it's a point to think about.

> >Bit of a non-story I think.
>
> Rather. Here it is done properly:
>
> http://macs.about.com/b/2010/06/18/apple-updates-malware-scanner-list.htm
>
> Zero comments. How about that.

What you'd expect.

Rowland.

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From: John DoH on 21 Jun 2010 17:35
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<1jkg9oe.cx5o3ds95cfrN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>,
real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>
> > peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote:
> >
> > >Nancy <me10(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Wow!
> > >>
> > >> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-issues-stealth-anti-malware-se
> > >> curity-update/8673
> > >
> > >Do Apple list every single file they update in a point release? I'd be
> > >surprised if they did, there must be hundreds if not thousands.
> > >
> > >And if not, then calling this a 'stealth' update is disingenuous. It's
> > >no more a 'stealth' update than all the other files that are updated at
> > >the same time.
>
> They're all a bit stealthy: we've been trained to accept these firms
> doing things we don't know about to our computers as if it's somehow
> okay.
>
> But why are you responding to the irritating schoolboy troll who posts
> here under the name `Nancy'? He's just winding people up, that's all.
>
> Oh, winding people up is *your* game, sorry, I forget, sorry, sorry.
>
> I don't know why the boy troll posts as Nancy, but he does like alleging
> misogyny at the drop of a hat...

You have quite a penchant for misogyny, do you think it stems from your
relationship with your mother?
>
> > > They do put out Security Updates between point updates,
> > >that patch vulnerabilities - is that admitting that they have to protect
> > >the Mac against malware? Probably - and the point is?
>
> The point is that it's a point to think about.
>
> > >Bit of a non-story I think.
> >
> > Rather. Here it is done properly:
> >
> > http://macs.about.com/b/2010/06/18/apple-updates-malware-scanner-list.htm
> >
> > Zero comments. How about that.
>
> What you'd expect.
>
> Rowland.

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