Apple patches big time

Are u saying OSX is not perfect? OMJ (oh my jobs) ... that is just not true

....still have my fingers in ears going *;lalalalalala**

Yup, ever since these bleeding updates, its requiring the Server certificate now and even after being installed doesn't sync old e-mails. I hate Apple with passion now.

...when Apple, Adobe, Oracle, Linux distors etc release every month patces more frequently and bigger in size than MS?

Oh wait, now I get it. You're simply wrong and/or anti-MS.

...drop your Linux, obviously on this basis it's less secure than Windows! :(

"Apple released 45 software patches to fix security vulnerabilities (which its hardware is not supposed to suffer from)"

Its hardware doesn't suffer vulnerabilities (well, it does... that's another issue)

In this case it's the software which suffers vulnerabilities... unless Apple have come up with some way to remotely upgrade hardware.

You don't get the sarcasm, do you?

If it were Apple releasing this many the PC Fanbois would be dribbling with bile by now.

You still have your fingers in your ears? How'd you manage to write that comment? Teach me mannn... is this some next level telekinesis thing? or just plain speech recognition software?

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OK so they had a big patch release, so what! I don't have a Mac anymore but really like OS X. My Linux Laptop auto updates (with my permission) programs and such almost monthly with usually a dozen or so patches and many say security fixes, windows does the same and so on, jealousy I think. Nick is just a Mac hater, always has been. I think he likes to start flame wars too.

Why is it that people are so thick?
No one is saying that companies dont do security patching!
What they are simply pointing out is that apple always spins that into this.
If apple didnt point finger when microsoft farted, well then no one would point finger when apple farts.
But you all know Apple's farts smell like roses.
APPLE STATES THEIR HARDWARE DOESNT HAVE PROBLEMS

Are they making more mistakes or neglecting less errors?

After thinking about this for years now the opinion I keep coming back to resolve security is as follows:

Proprietary code = Police, Military, Security agencies, Secure government departments, internal to corporations to protect trade secrets

Opensource: The rest of us

I say this because when you are dealing with a for profit organization. For profit companies have statistical numbers they need to meet to keep investors happy and this will and always does cause for profit companies to compromise on doing the right thing like patching critical security flaws. This generally takes 2 to 4 months before a patch it issued with for profit companies.

With opensource 99% of the time these security patches are fixed in less then a month.

BTW 99% of the vulnerabilities that researchers discover are disclosed to the vendor (or project leads in linux world) 1 to 2 months before these vulnerabilities are publicly disclosed. This means by the time you actually have a CVE issued this vulnerability was been at least known for 1 month leaving system vulnerable during that time.

For profit companies are in the business for one reason PROFIT!!! Protecting you the consumer is near the bottom of the list of priorities with these companies.

Do you know why people including the biased author continue praising linux? because no one uses linux (what's the proportion of code writing geeks to the general population?), it's only a bubble that grows as people talk about it without actually using it.

Hmm still looking for all these patches in my software update, could it be another story that is months out of date or perhaps several grouped together to create more spin.

Ether way every system gets security patches, bug fixes and tweaks regardless of OS. That is how things like Linux and Mac OS stay secure and supposedly the same is meant to be true for Windows.

When I mentioned opensource above I don't mean linux. Linux does not equal opensource ... linux is opensourced but it is not opensource. Opensource can apply on any platform not just linux. Linux just so happens to be the only opensource operating system.

Now think about it for a second, when it comes to any other market like cell phones, cars, housing, home appliances, electronics, ... they all and I mean all have laws they need to abide since these laws are to protect the consumer from harm. From what I've seen is that it only seems that law makers seem to think that harm means physical and not financial or personal character. Now if all proprietary vendors would be forced to be responsible for systems that are compromised and payup for the fraudulent incident then you would see MS actually fixing things ASAP but that is not how it is.

Here is an other way of looking at it, do you trust your CEO and do you trust that he cares about you. Now if your like me then the answer is no the CEO doesn't give a flying rats ass about me or anyone below him. This guys makes decisions on how the company reacts to its customers. Remember that, the same thing applies to software companies.

One model that I think for profit companies should do is a support based model. Meaning instead of paying for software, pay for support. This would be a completely different approach and then I would think that there would be less vulnerabilities or problems and they could also keep a code base going indefinitely since it isn't a new version that makes them money it is support subscriptions that makes them money. They make shit software then people won't pay support and go with a competitor.

These are enhancements not patches! Apples software doesn't need patching, as it is always perfect when it is released.

Besides, they wouldn't unleash imperfect code from Heaven, the angels would get there ass's kicked to hell if they ever did. Now stop the blasphemy and go repent by saying 'Steve Jobs is my lord and savior, no one is as mighty or as pure as thee' one hundred times for forgiveness!

Linux fanbois? If you had any knowledge of operating systems you would know that "Linux" is just the kernel. Redhat, SuSe, Ubuntu etc.. those are operating systems. Get it right if you are going to talk about it.

Linux just so happens to be the only opensource operating system

*BSD, Solaris, Darwin, Plan9, ... all open source.

Linux, btw., is just the kernel.