Security Update 2003-11-04

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Security Update 2003-11-04 addresses a potential vulnerability with the Terminal application in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system.
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I'm still hoping Apple fixes FileVault and the FW800 issue themselves. They can't expect all users to know that they have to upgrade firmware of harddrives before updating... Oh, well... Right when we thought Apple was invincible. ;-)
 
From what I can tell it's the makers of the FW hardrives that have the problem by not following the Firewire spec, so Apple should not have to change how they implement Firewire. I think what they *could* do is have SW Update detect if they have a Firewire 800 drive with the affected chipsets and download a small program that tells them to update their drive's firmware.
 
Well, I have to say: The market and press doesn't seem to care much whose fault it is. It's clearly Apple's in the minds of the average Joe. Install Panther: Harddrive gone. It's quite easy to think like that, and not totally untrue. If Apple supported oh-so-strange FW handling in Jaguar and clearly changed something obvious, they should have warned the harddrive makers well in advance.
 
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