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From: Nick Naym on 14 Apr 2010 22:18
In article Qctxn.1817$Z6.1134(a)edtnps82, Kir�ly at me(a)home.spamsucks.ca wrote
on 4/14/10 8:37 PM:

> Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:
>> Time for a security update (restart will be required). This one fixes the
>> vulnerability that was successfully used in the Pwn2Own competition.
>
> It's a whopper at 210MB. I don't remember ever seeing such a big size
> for a one-item security update.

I just checked (but didn't install). It says 6.3 MB for the Security Update;
another 173 KB for for a SMC Firmware Update.

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From: JF Mezei on 15 Apr 2010 01:58
David Empson wrote:
>
> Rather annoying for Leoaprd users that this security update fixes a
> single problem but incorporates all the earlier security updates,
> resulting in another multi-hundred megabyte download just two weeks
> after the previous one.

For my macbookpro, software update shows an 2010-03 security update file
size of 6.3 megabytes.

The Server tools update was some 60 megabytes.
From: David Empson on 15 Apr 2010 03:45
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
> >
> > Rather annoying for Leoaprd users that this security update fixes a
> > single problem but incorporates all the earlier security updates,
> > resulting in another multi-hundred megabyte download just two weeks
> > after the previous one.
>
> For my macbookpro, software update shows an 2010-03 security update file
> size of 6.3 megabytes.
>
> The Server tools update was some 60 megabytes.

I was talking about the size of the Leopard security updates in the
paragraph quoted above. They are about 210 MB (client) and 365 MB
(server).

The numbers you mention are the sizes of the Snow Leopard updates. As I
mentioned in my earlier post, they are more reasonable sizes.

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From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 15 Apr 2010 10:52
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, in <jollyroger-1DE8D2.20031314042010(a)news.individual.n...:

> Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:
>
>> Time for a security update (restart will be required). This one fixes the
>> vulnerability that was successfully used in the Pwn2Own competition.
>
> Pwn2Own was like 20 days ago, right? Not bad.

Yup. Not bad at all.

-j

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From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 15 Apr 2010 10:55
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, in <1jgzqfb.v2d9oi8q3v5rN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> David...:

> Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:
>
>> Time for a security update (restart will be required). This one fixes the
>> vulnerability that was successfully used in the Pwn2Own competition.
>
> Rather annoying for Leoaprd users that this security update fixes a
> single problem but incorporates all the earlier security updates,
> resulting in another multi-hundred megabyte download just two weeks
> after the previous one.

Is it "all earlier security updates" or are they the "new" updates that
come with the massive security fixes from 10.6.2 -> 10.6.3. That OS
update had what must be a record number of security fixes.

-j

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