Apple Posts Security Update 2005-002

thelemmings writes "Today, Apple released Security Update 2005-002 for Mac OS X. It fixes a bug in the Java 1.4.2 implementation where an untrusted applet could gain elevated privileges and potentially execute arbitrary code. Sounds scary."

Re:Safari Popup Fix

[Fo0eY]

shhh, you'll wake up the ad guys =\

Yes, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

What does Roland Piquepaille think about this?

I tried it; it works!

[Anonymous Coward]

I installed it, and it works just f$#!@^*NO CARRIER

Java 1.4.2 Sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Java 1.4.2 fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Java 1.4.2 rig (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to byte-compile a 17 meg file. 20 minutes! At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running Java 1.4.1, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Java 1.4.2 machine, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this file transfer, HotJava will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even my IDE is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Java 1.4.2 machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Java 1.4.2 system that has run faster than its Java 1.4.1 counterpart, despite Java 1.4.2's faster bytecode architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster with Java 1.4.1 than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Java 1.4.2 is a superior virtual machine.

Java 1.4.2 addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Java 1.4.2 over other faster, cheaper, more stable Java environments.

Re:Safari Popup Fix

[Zhe Mappel]

The Defender of Property blurted:

In other words, it allows you to more effectively steal information and services from those who are kind enough to provide them for free, in exchange asking only for the opportunity to show you an easily ignored advertisement. Spoiled scum like you, with your obnoxiously oversized sense of entitlement, ought to be exiled to the desert, if you ask me. There you can establish your commune or whatever it is you hippies like to do, while we in civilized society will do our best to forget you.

I cannot imagine a more selfish attitude towards the world than that which the teabagging cocksmokers of Slashdot bring to light.

LOL! My good man, can you have reached the ripe age of harrumphing without having seen "The Big Lebowski"? You really owe it to yourself to see David Huddleston's performance as the titular character; it will cure you forever of the urge to use mothballed expressions such as "whatever it is you hippies like to do" and "we in civilized society." Conscious self-parody is one thing, after all, but your sleepwalking has moved me to unexpected sympathy in a way I've not felt since the prez fell off a Segway.

Now, in any case, no one is under any obligation to view ads in any context. Nor should imposition, the sine qua non of advertising, be euphemized as "opportunity." It's your confusion of obedience with duty that has led to your arch and sniveling denigration of your ad-free fellow man. You, sir, are no advertisement for advertisements.

ANOTHER Security Update?

[Anonymous Coward]

geez Apple, it was barely a month since your last update. [apple.com] Not looking so good I gotta say.

I might have to "unswitch" to Windows, they hardly have as many security fixes. It's as rock solid as a Kryptonite lock. -gko

Re:Go Go Apple

[Carthag]

I remember finding an amusing post on usenet from 1983 or 1984 discussing the possibilities of Apple adding Objective C libraries to the Macintosh. Took a while, but they did it! :D