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22 feb. 2006

@apple@

This is weird. “Come see new fun products from Apple.” Their invitations are usually much more understated, aren’t they? It’s not like them to announce, a week ahead of the event, that they’re introducing “fun products”, is it? What can be so cool that they’d be so sure of living to the hype it’s goint to generate, and at the same time not give out the tiniest clue in the invitation itself?

 

Unless… you know… a calendar… on an iPod… with a touch-screen… and handwriting recognition… Must. Stop. Thinking. (By the time what’s announced there is actually available, I’ll likely have enough money on my bank account to buy it, whatever it is. But that hypothetical money is intended to pay the rent, damnit!)

 

@apple@

Or maybe they’ll just announce that Mail.app is vulnerable to the same security hole as Safari (well, almost — no automatic execution in that case, but close enough if you think you know the message’s sender). If they don’t fix this before it’s exploited for real (and, like I wrote — before, article after article, they announce that there’s also a risk when you receive files in iChat, or using this program or that — it goes beyond fixing Safari and Mail, although I don’t think it should be quite hard anyway, provided they’re not mistaken as to where the vulnerability actually resides), there’s going to be an awful lot of bad press about that. You can’t enjoy your reputation as the most secure consumer-oriented operating system and leave such blaring holes open for more than a couple of days.

[02/22] A much more detailed technical explaination by Unsanity of what I was telling you, and a system-wide fix (haven’t tested it yet), doubly useful since it’ll be asking you to confirm whenever a document you double-clicked isn’t going to open with the default application (you know those times when you download a jpeg, double-click it to open it in Preview, and Photoshop launches instead and youu want to throw your computer through the window?). I think there already was a utility that did that, but can’t remember which, when or where.

 

@apple@

Crap, I’d forgotten to publish this article (that’s the drawback of writing posts at four in the morning a few weeks only after you’ve started using a drafts system). So I’ll use the opportunity to publish the picture above, which I find way too perfect, photographically speaking, to be real (not to mention the sharp corners).

 

@apple@

While we’re at it, a black MacBook Pro PowerBook, and this one has the advantage of not pretending to be a spyshot. Like the article states, that would be a more logical evolution for the next iBook, following the iPod’s steps. (But then, with that logic, the Intel iMac would be available in black, too, as some people expected. And the integrated iSight wouldn’t be such a sore sight anymore.)

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