Warp2Search.net » News » October 2003 » Apple patches Panther but not older OS

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

berkut Unregistered

#49019 Posted on: 10/30/2003 02:38 AM wow... and people were disspleased with Microsoft dropping Windows 95 support..

thomas997 Junior Member Posts: 12 Joined: 2003-04-21

#49022 Posted on: 10/30/2003 04:10 AM haha and panther has been known to f$#* up your mac when you install it..

sodapop Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: 2003-08-10

#49024 Posted on: 10/30/2003 06:07 AM wow, Apple has just lost all my respect. Guess I won't be buying a mac now.

ewwhww01 Unregistered

#49025 Posted on: 10/30/2003 08:56 AM I am not surprised.

ClintEastman Unregistered

#49026 Posted on: 10/30/2003 10:53 AM Say what you will about MS, they would never pull a stunt like that! (i bet you they U-turn on it) Roll on Longhorn

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