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Re:Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 20% Macs ... by qwerta on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:37PM (#7314852)
Great, so now there will be another army of zombie computers. Thansk very much Apple. Perhaps I should start forwarding spam I get.
Re:Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 20% Macs ... by danielweber on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:39PM (#7314871)
Wait, was this an arbitrary code execution bug?
Re:Apple retires Snow Leopard from support, leaves 20% Macs ... by qwerta on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:47PM (#7314936)
Encryption bug could be used by malware, but there were also several others bugfixes in that patch:

> The update, the first since mid-December, patched 32 other vulnerabilities in various versions of OS X, including six in QuickTime, Apple's media player, and more disturbing, four bugs that could be used by attackers to bypass the application "sandbox," an isolation technology designed to minimize damage when malware does make it onto a Mac.