The Bounty For An Apple Bug

Posted by skywalker on Thursday March 25, 2010 @03:59PM
from the blogs.forbes.com dept.

http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/03/25/the-bounty-for-an-apple-bug-115000/

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Re:The Bounty For An Apple Bug by rbranson on Thursday March 25, 2010 @04:21PM (#1219391)

Why don't the vendors (Apple and Microsoft) respond by offering their own bounties and fixing the problem?

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Re:The Bounty For An Apple Bug by hga on Thursday March 25, 2010 @08:01PM (#1219883)

Good question.

We don't know why, all we know it that is takes public naming and shaming to get them to do anything about serious security related bugs (and this is no just for Apple but for most companies).

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Re:The Bounty For An Apple Bug by csmeder on Thursday March 25, 2010 @09:59PM (#1220053)

what are the best options for securing a mac? Anti virus/firewall software?

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