Love it!

This is a VERY good article about OS X security. It gives a good perspective as to what this is all about in reality.


http://www.informationweek.com/hardw...ntosh+Platform

Pah, I was hoping it would be 'Apple issues NEW Airport' Are they waiting for n-certification next year?

The Airport update doesn't appear to apply to all macs. It wouldn't run on my G5.

I got that too - is it for Airport or Airport Extreme?

And the Security updated installed fine on my G5 iMac, but is stalling my G4 PowerBook restart on the grey Apple screen with spinning dial.

Thanks Apple for thoroughly vetting this one.

Never, never, never, install a new update of ANY kind, without first going to macfixit.com, and macintouch.com to find out what the problems are, first.

They ALL have problems of one kind or another. Whether those problems will affect you or not is something you must know before installing them.

I always do that every day for at least a week before upgrading.

Just like the new 7.1.3 Quicktime update, and the iTunes 7 update. Both have their problems. I haven't updated either yet.

When they are fixed, I will.

Same with the security update.

And then FIX permissions.

Oh, for safety's sake, verify your hard-drive first.

I think I read somewhere that this only applies to certain builds of the Mac OS, specifically the Intel version, and that whatever other fixes Airport needed were included in the Security Update for the rest of us rather than a separate updater. Not sure how much of that, if any, is true.

It would have been nice if this was clarified by Apple.

Some information from Apple regarding the Airport and Security updates:

The Software Update utility will present the update that applies to your system configuration. Only one is needed, either AirPort Update 2006-001 or Security Update 2006-005.

For reference if installing from a manually-downloaded package:

AirPort Update 2006-001 will install on the following systems:

Mac OS X v10.4.7 Builds 8J2135 or 8J2135a

Security Update 2006-005 will install on the following systems:

Mac OS X v10.3.9
Mac OS X Server v10.3.9
Mac OS X v10.4.7 Builds 8J135, 8K1079, 8K1106, 8K1123, or 8K1124
Mac OS X Server v10.4.7 Builds 8J135 or 8K1079

Well done Melgross. You win the prize.

btw. iTunes7 works fine on Macs for the most part. It's on Windows that it has more serious issues.

Was so curious when reading the article as I've been having Airport issues with my Macbook also I used to be able to get full bars in my home and I haven't moved, using MB in the same spots but now I'm lucky to get one bar

BLARGH! Mel, you should know better then this.

1) Installing anything will already have fixed the permissions. Fixing permissions, by definition, restores them to the installer settings. If an installer doesn't have the proper permissions set (which is rare, most installers don't even touch permissions), then fixing permissions won't even work: it'll just set them to whatever permissions were in all the various installers.

2) Fixing permissions fixes like 1% of problems ever. And they're pretty easily recognizable: it happens when an app can't save files.

3) Fixing permissions very likely only ever fixes USER errors: where a user specifically went into the get info panel, entered their password, and screwed their own computer up. I don't think there's ever been a verified report of an app or process actually screwing up permissions itself.

Jon Gruber I think also has a couple similar articles on DaringFireball.net that are probably clear than I am :P