Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.freeware,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 10:17:55 -0700 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151852561506%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151911207774%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020152005503949%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020152029590863%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020152114099863%nospam@nospam.invalid> <6uudnU6rVZP8YYzLnZ2dnUU7-WGdnZ2d@supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net zfqw0wQ2LccH18FwPYQy5QG7VS4CvVIzrdwEd8hhTbGq4FdbTa Cancel-Lock: sha1:mxWaqCGJE3wZmOl5+qpn/VUzIJA= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Thread-Index: AdD/kcXxJ/orumkyHESiFOmX4yUc+g== Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:81570 alt.comp.freeware:244741 alt.hacker:8591 alt.privacy.anon-server:45753 comp.os.linux.advocacy:324499 On 10/5/15, 10:01 AM, in article d7foniFbto2U2@mid.individual.net, "Jolly Roger" wrote: > On 2015-10-05, Snit wrote: >> On 10/5/15, 9:19 AM, in article d7fm7qFbjssU1@mid.individual.net, "Jolly >> Roger" wrote: >> >>> Snit wrote: >>>> >>>> Nope. In the real world example I ran into, which was years ago so I cannot >>>> be that specific, it ended up being an incompatibility between a certain >>>> range of serial numbers for the sound card. They had a small difference >>>> that >>>> they figured would not impact anything - but it did. So once it was >>>> eventually tracked down it was clear it was the sound card - but you were >>>> looking to blame the motherboard (or the user for having incorrect settings >>>> on the motherboard!) >>> >>> He's wearing rose colored glasses. >> >> Agreed. To be fair it has become far less common over the years for me to >> hear of or run into such things in terms of hardware - but it does happen. >> And it happens in other areas, too. > > Yep. I've built my own PCs. There was a stretch of time where all of > mine were home built PCs running various versions of Linux or Unix. So > I'm well aware of the issues one can encounter. I have known people to have multiple video cards and sound cards and they swap them out depending on what programs they are using because based on the programs they found different combinations to work. That was YEARS ago, though (1990s) and I have not heard of that level of insanity since. :) -- * OS X / Linux: What is a file? * Mint MATE Trash, Panel, Menu: * Mint KDE working with folders: * Mint KDE creating files: * Mint KDE help: * Mint KDE general navigation: * Mint KDE bugs or Easter eggs? * Easy on OS X / Hard on Linux: * OS / Word Processor Comparison: