Tuesday Apple released a update to OSX v 10.3 (Panther) that includes a number of security fixes. This seems as a good thing, but at the same time Apple is choosing NOT to fix the security errors in earlier versions of its OS (10.2 and below). This means that apple users are forced to pay a rather large update fee ($129) to stay secure.
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"It is not a friendly thing to tell your customers to shell out a lot of money to stay secure," said Thor Larholm, senior researcher for software security firm PivX Solutions. "It would be a dangerous precedent, if they did."
"Apple declined comment."
So even if we windows users are more exposed to flaws than Mac users, at least we get our OS updated without having to pay big money.
Read the whole article at News.com.com
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"It is not a friendly thing to tell your customers to shell out a lot of money to stay secure," said Thor Larholm, senior researcher for software security firm PivX Solutions. "It would be a dangerous precedent, if they did."
"Apple declined comment."
So even if we windows users are more exposed to flaws than Mac users, at least we get our OS updated without having to pay big money.
Read the whole article at News.com.com
