Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store

From	Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.freeware, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store
Date	2015-10-12 13:57 +0000
Message-ID	<d81si0Fuap7U3@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:46:48 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:

> Nobody wrote:
> 
>> On 10/6/2015 6:28 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>> Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
>>>> Snit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 10/6/15, 11:58 AM, in article mv15gv$qhv$4@dont-email.me, "Peter
>>>>> Köhlmann" <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can basically forget nearly all GUI software needing X
>>>>>>
>>>>> Other than noting you had no clue X11 can run on OS X did you have a
>>>>> point?
>>>>
>>>> You mean the fact that I schooled you about X on OSX?
>>>
>>> You're just plain wrong. OS X allows you to run plenty of X11
>>> software.
>>>
>>>> And that it is no longer part of the install image
>>>
>>> Irrelevant.
>> 
>> All you need is a third party package installer
> 
> Which can't work the way linux package managers work
> 
>> and a third party X11 system,
> 
> Which is not integrated at all into the osx GUI
> 
>> and cross your fingers that Apple, Inc. doesn't break either one...
> 
> Trust, they will. Until now they have broken applications with nearly
> every OS version "upgrade"

While that is oft times true, in almost every case they have given ample 
warning about what is changing that will cause that to happen.  It is up 
to the developers to then ensure their app is updated to handle it.




-- 
Lloyd

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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-12 06:15 -0500
  Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-12 14:46 +0200
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 13:57 +0000
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-12 18:30 +0200
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 16:41 +0000
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-12 09:08 -0700
    Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-12 16:36 +0000
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-12 09:45 -0700
      Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2015-10-12 18:51 +0200
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-12 09:54 -0700
        Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-12 17:15 +0000
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2015-10-12 12:59 -0500
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-12 11:06 -0700
            Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-12 18:10 +0000
              Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-10-13 11:59 -0600
          Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-12 11:04 -0700
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