[LINK] Animated cursor flaw in All Windows

[Adrian Chadd]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >Mike Shearer wrote:
> >>(I'm about to switch to Apple and open source so it's not a compelling 
> >>issue).
> >
> >Which are you doing, Apple != open source
> 
> But Apple's BSD based OSX has just about every popular component that is 
> available in Linux and in all other UNIX OS (except for SCO, where 
> you are just lucky if someone stuck it on Freebird). 
> And with deft GCC skills, you can have the rest, too  (Except for 
> SCO, which wants to make sure you pay to use GCC as well as their 
> own broken offering).

People keep thinking Apple OSX == BSD based. Grr!

* Some of the drivers may have been ripped from *BSD;
* The Mach kernel ain't BSD; and
* Some of the UNIX userland may have been ripped from *BSDs, but!
* There's a -lot- of Apple-specific code floating around the operating
  system to implement all the stuff UNIX doesn't give you and that could
  be hiding some pretty nasty bugs.

The way to gauge security of a platform isn't its public security history -
its by auditing the thing. The month of apple bugs showed Apple is capable
of the same kinds of bugs that pop up in Windows software.





Adrian