Apple Releases Mac OS X Leopard Security Guide

Wormfan writes to share ZDNet's brief mention of and a link to "Apple's release of a ~250 page PDF of security best-practices and tips to protect Mac OS X Leopard clients. The guide is aimed at experienced users, Apple says, familiar with the Terminal application and its command-line interface."

Re:They lied!

[tbuddy23]

That is why on my grandmother's machine I put a hardware lock, set firmware password, enabled stealth network mode and secured virtual memory. I will be damned if those dirty hackers find out which bunt cake recipes she has been looking at.

Re:They lied!

[jo42]

Excellent!

1) Read 250 pages.
2) Charge $NNN an hour for "Security Services".
3) Profit!!!

Re:argh: all my passwords contain a capital "U"

[kellyb9]

AND YO 'D think they WO LD have FIG RED that O T!

Re:argh: all my passwords contain a capital "U"

[gEvil (beta)]

Anybody know the reason for this?

From this page [apple.com] on Open Firmware passwords, they list the following:
Blocks the ability to use the "C" key to start up from an optical disc.
Blocks the ability to use the "N" key to start up from a NetBoot server.
Blocks the ability to use the "T" key to start up in Target Disk Mode (on computers that offer this feature).

I wonder if the missing U has something to do with those... : p

Re:argh: all my passwords contain a capital "U"

[Anonymous Coward]

On Slashdot, the word "cunt" is informative. You can't make that up.

Re:argh: all my passwords contain a capital "U"

[ArsonSmith]

Apple is a US based company

Only in Soviet Russia, passwords contain U.

Re:First things first...

[geekboy642]

You need to upgrade your irrational prejudices. Macs get gray screens of death. Happened to my MacBook last week. It took me a whole hour to drive down to the apple store, get it fixed(hard drive replaced) by a mac genius, and drive back home. Ridiculous! A whole hour! To fix a major hardware flaw! On Windows, just futzing with driver settings to fix a blue screen would've taken four or five hours, but I wouldn't have had to drive anywhere!