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Windswept
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2007-01-04, 15:49

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Security researchers plan to release details of previously undisclosed Mac OS X or Apple application security bugs every day in January. The Month of Apple Bugs project is the brainchild of Kevin Finisterre and the folks behind November's Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) project.

The security researchers told the Washington Post that, as with Apple bugs featured during the MoKB project, Apple would receive no advanced notice of the forthcoming security problems. The security researchers hope to use the project to dispel the perception that Apple systems are free of the security bugs that have long plagued Windows users.

"OS X users still think their system is bulletproof, and some people are interested on making it look that way," LMH of the MoKB project told the Washington Post.
Perhaps Kevin Finisterre needs a taste of his own medicine.***

He seems perfectly - even *smugly* - happy to expose millions of 'others' to completely unnecessary security breaches. How would *he* like it if skilled hackers posted on the internet all the security flaws associated with his own personal financial accounts?

How would he like it if a map of his house were posted, along with times of the day when no one is home, and windows and doors pointed out where it would be easy to break in?

Oh, and all these revelations would be made *solely* in the interest of kindly helping Mr. Finisterre tighten security on his financial accounts and at his home.

Surely he'll be overwhelmed with gratitude at all the warmhearted assistance being offered him.



This guy seems bitter and jealous wrt the security Apple users have enjoyed. His act seems vengeful, destructive, and potentially criminally liable.

As an analogy, let's imagine that a group of Californians become bitter because their homes have either burned in Santa Ana wildfires, slid into the ocean on mudslides (after torrential rains) from being built on precarious hillside land too close to the sea, or become damaged from tremors because they were built on earthquake fault lines.

They bitterly notice the safety of homes far away from these perils, and jealously decide that it's not fair that these other homeowners live in security because of the wise decisions they made.

So the bitter Californians seek to ruin the security and safety of these other homes in whatever way they can.

To me, that seems pretty much the same as:

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...hope to use the project to dispel the perception that Apple systems are free of the security bugs that have long plagued Windows users.
He wants to drag others down to level of misery that he has suffered under for years. What a self-righteous pompous scumbag!

If significant problems result for people as a result of his actions, they should band together and file charges against Kevin Finisterre and his loathesome project. He really, really deserves some concrete consequences for his criminally irresponsible deeds.


***Disclaimer:

These (above top) are NOT *real* suggestions wrt Finisterre's accounts and house. Rather, they are a sarcastic attempt to show how offensive and harmful the irresponsible publication of security flaws can be. I do NOT advocate breaching *anyone's* security in any way. (Just wanted to make that PERFECTLY CLEAR.)
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