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Apple copies Microsoft security system

by on23 December 2014


A decade too late

The fruity cargo cult Apple has done what Microsoft has been doing for years – pushing out security updates. It seems that Apple has just discovered the technique which the Tame Apple Press is trying to explain as something “super”, “cool” and “original.”

The company pushed out the software to fix critical security vulnerabilities in a component of its OS X operating system called the network time protocol, or NTP, according to Apple spokesman Bill Evans. NTP is used for synchronizing clocks on computer systems. The “super” “cool” and “original” Apple programmers have never been able to write software which can tell the time properly and there are usually problems when it comes to summer time anyway.

These flaws were a little nastier and not something that Apple could ignore. They were made public last week by the Department of Homeland Security and the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute. When Apple released previous security patches, it did so through its regular software update system, which typically requires user intervention and happens some months after the flaw has been forgotton.

The company decided to deliver the NTP bug fixes with its technology for automatically pushing out security updates, which Apple introduced two years ago but had never previously used, because it wanted to protect customers as quickly as possible due to the severity of the vulnerabilities.

 

Last modified on 28 December 2014
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