Just as a curiosity: yesterday I watched a talk by Thomas Ptacek at some indie Mac dev conference where he showed, en passant, how some kludges used by Apple pr

Just as a curiosity: yesterday I watched a talk by Thomas Ptacek at some indie Mac dev conference where he showed, en passant, how some kludges used by Apple produced vulnerabilities in Mac OS X. It’s old, fixed stuff by now, but I was like “WTF?” all the same. Because it’s very stupid stuff from Apple. Here’s the talk, slides (check slide 11), and related blog post: http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/31/ http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/31/ http://www.slideshare.net/tqbf/c42-software-security-presentation http://www.slideshare.net/tqbf/c42-software-security-present... http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/9/24/indie-software-security-a-12-step-program.html http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/9/24/indie-software...