Thursday, March 22, 2007

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  • Look inside Apple TV

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    You've seen the unboxing pics, and the setup pics, and now you can check out what the Apple TV looks like on the inside. Those wacky people at TechRestore got their hands on an Apple TV and did what any of us would, ripped it apart. There isn't anything too shocking in that little box, but it looks like the hard drive won't be too hard to swap out.

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  • FUD: Windows is "most secure OS"

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    Andy Patrizio has an incredibly sloppy story entitled "Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS" at internetnews.com, which purports to summarize the recently released Symantec Internet Security Thread Report Volume XI. But if you look closely at the actual report (PDF), you'll see that this claim that Windows is "Most Secure" is based merely on Microsoft's relative speediness in patching security holes. That is, what apparently makes Windows "most secure" is that in the Jul-Dec 2006 timeframe Microsoft took an average of only 21 days to patch holes, while Red Hat (linux) took took 58 and Apple took 66. Okay, so Microsoft is best right? But that's silly, why would the speed of responding to holes by itself determine which OS is most secure? It should clearly matter how serious the holes were in the first place! If you're slow to patch relatively innocuous holes, is that not better than quickly patching a larger number of more serious holes? And when we look at the breakdown we see that in this period Microsoft had 39 disclosed vulnerabilities, and "12 were considered high severity, 20 were medium." Apple, on the other hand, issued 43 patches, and only "one was considered high severity, 31 were medium." So basically, Microsoft is quicker at patching 12 times as many high severity vulnerabilities, and that apparently makes Windows "more secure."

    Now it's worth noting that none of this settles the question of which OS is more secure, but it does show the completely specious reasoning behind that headline claiming Windows is the "Most Secure OS." And of course it's this sort of lazy reporting (compounded by Patrizio's sniffing at Apple's advertising of better security) that creates a meme that others may pick up and pass on without quite realizing that it based on a straightforward misreading. In other words, it's pure FUD.
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  • Ars: 'Leopard will be late'

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    Everyone seems to have that "reliable inside source" feeding them tasty morsels of information about possible release dates for Leopard. For most other rumors, these disparate (and in most cases non-existent) sources would all be saying wildly different things. It gives credence then to both the validity of the tipsters and their rumors these days that they all seem to be saying the same thing; Leopard will be late- at least relative to earlier estimates of when we'd see it.

    Infinite Loop over at ArsTechnica breaks down some of the logic behind these new predictions of a later (can you say WWDC?) release, including an analysis of the normal ramp-up to Gold Master production and where Apple seems to be in the process on this cycle. According to one Ars tipster, current builds are "Barely beta."
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