There is a hole... in your mind
May. 25th, 2004 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinIf you have a Mac and follow the Mac news, you've probably been reading about all the potential security exploits involving exotic URL protocols that have gotten attention over the past couple of weeks. And you may have read that Apple's latest security update plugs the best-publicized hole, but not all of them. And you may be wondering exactly what to do, in the face of conflicting and hysterical recommendations.
The best, coolest-headed analyses I've seen on the subject are John Gruber of Daring Fireball's posts. He has concrete recommendations for action. Before you actually do anything, though, I'd recommend reading the linked articles in which he explains the problem in detail, and getting some understanding of why the solutions he proposes are the preferred ones.
This kind of sanity check is essential whenever you hear random people out in the Internet wilderness yelling "You have a security hole! Fix it now! NOW! To plug it, do this and this and this!" Otherwise, you've got the biggest security hole of all in your own brain. I'd be especially wary of people telling you to install some third-party system extension you've never heard of.
The best, coolest-headed analyses I've seen on the subject are John Gruber of Daring Fireball's posts. He has concrete recommendations for action. Before you actually do anything, though, I'd recommend reading the linked articles in which he explains the problem in detail, and getting some understanding of why the solutions he proposes are the preferred ones.
This kind of sanity check is essential whenever you hear random people out in the Internet wilderness yelling "You have a security hole! Fix it now! NOW! To plug it, do this and this and this!" Otherwise, you've got the biggest security hole of all in your own brain. I'd be especially wary of people telling you to install some third-party system extension you've never heard of.