Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix 392
Nimey writes "Adobe has posted a security bulletin for Photoshop CS5 for Windows and OSX. It seems there is a critical security hole that will allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application. Adobe's fix? You need to pay to upgrade to Photoshop CS6. For users who cannot upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe recommends users follow security best practices and exercise caution when opening files from unknown or untrusted sources."
Car analogy (Score:3, Funny)
This is akin to buying a 2010 Chevy (under warranty), then finding out that the brakes catch on fire under certain circumstances, and the company's suggestion: buy a 2012.
And this is still on /.'s front page (Score:5, Funny)
"Just released, and coming in at 370 MB in size, the Mac OS X 10.7.4 update includes general OS fixes, and addresses more than 30 security vulnerabilities. But aside from typical security fixes, Apple has made an interesting move in an effort to protect users. Through this latest software update, Safari 5.1.7 will now automatically disable older â" and typically more vulnerable â" versions of the Adobe Flash player. While many software vendors would prefer OS makers to keep their hands off their software, the move appears to be welcomed by Adobe, which has constantly battled vulnerabilities in its widely installed Flash Player."
Maybe Apple should disable Photoshop CS5 as well?
Re:Awful nice program ya got there... (Score:2, Funny)
I was picturing it more along the lines of the following (read it in Cave Johnson's voice if need be):
Okay, seriously, you guys. Seriously this time. We want out of this industry. The CEO and the board members are filthy stinking rich Silicon Valley douchebags, they want to get the hell out and retire while the retirin's good. The only thing stopping them is all those code monkey drones they need to pay, and so long as you idiots keep buying our products, we can't really stop them. I mean, have you SEEN some of those people? I don't even want to LOOK at them, let alone do anything that would either require me getting close enough to them to physically stop them nor give them a reason to get anywhere near me where I might have to look at them.
So here's the plan: STOP BUYING OUR PRODUCTS ALREADY. If we go around firing everyone when the company's doing well, we'll be up to our necks with questions, lawsuits, and neckbeards. But if you people stop buying our products due to our own incompetence, the company dies out, avoiding all those unpleasantries. All right? It's a win-win situation: We get to retire to our private islands in luxury and bliss, you get to no longer use our catastrophically braindead products.
To that end, we'll be instituting a series of corporationally suicidal moves to convince you, the unhappy consumer, to start investing heavily in HTML5 development and get those amateur art hacks who bought copies of Photoshop with their college discounts to switch to something cheaper, since they only use a couple features from Photoshop anyway, and those features have been in free stuff for a decade or so by now. Sure, sure, there'll be some professionals who DO need Photoshop and who will gladly keep pumping money into our retirement plans for another bug-riddled incremental update to a big-riddled raster image editor, but I'm certain whoever takes over our assets after our graceless plummet into corporate financial ruin will continue to service them perfectly well until they wise up and get out of this business, too.
Everybody got the plan? Good! We'll start with a program to charge for security updates and progress onward to a microtransaction-based Illustrator. If you want those vector tools, you're going to pay for 'em. See you at this quarter's board meeting!
Re:Call it the Microsoft method (Score:5, Funny)
People pay for Photoshop? (Score:4, Funny)
That's news.
Re:Slight correction (Score:5, Funny)
Photoshop 6 == Photoshop CS1, the CS is quite important here.
And the CS stands for Compromised Security.