[Macworld]

Post your comments for Apple invites bug researchers to scrutinize Lion OS here

[hayesk]

It's good that Apple is getting these guys to take a look, but sometimes security researchers lack perspective. I swear if they had their way, we'd have retina scanners, voice recognition, and securID tokens just to be able to email grandma.

I'd also really like to know what constitutes "innovation in 2011."

[Success]

As a consumer I see this as an excellent move by Apple and better than bells and whistles any day. And since this is something new and beneficial, how does it not count as innovative?

[jscotta]

I can see from the stream of Windows exploits just how much protection ASLR has provided to Windows. While I do not doubt that it can help, I'll take my stream of no viruses on OS X over the proclamations of love by researchers.

[applemanDesign]

Bring back the keyboard start switch, could also be used for fingerprint recognition

[Kennethfcooper]

hayesk, on 28 February 2011 - 06:35 AM, said:

It's good that Apple is getting these guys to take a look, but sometimes security researchers lack perspective. I swear if they had their way, we'd have retina scanners, voice recognition, and securID tokens just to be able to email grandma.

I'd also really like to know what constitutes "innovation in 2011."

Yes, if we knew what constituted innovation in 2011, it wouldn't be innovation, now would it?

[zarmanto]

hayesk, on 28 February 2011 - 06:35 AM, said:

I'd also really like to know what constitutes "innovation in 2011."

As Kenneth pointed out, Sotirov doesn't really know what innovation is... he's just sure that he knows what innovation isn't. Sotirov's comment was a double-edged sword, swiping one direction at Apple for having not implemented one very specific security measure in Mac OS X as effectively (in his opinion) as Microsoft did in Windows, and then swinging right back the other way to say that even if Apple does implement this particular measure now, somebody else has already received the credit for "innovating" in that area.

Of course, it wasn't actually Microsoft who came up with the concept of ASLR, nor were they even the first to implement it, so these so-called "experts" implicitly granting so much credit to Microsoft seems to me to be more than a little misleading. In fact, I would even go so far as to say that Microsoft's implementation of ASLR isn't really any more complete than Apple's, which is why ASLR hasn't truly changed much in the proliferation of exploits on Windows. ( See Wikipedia for references. )

[Bengt77]

It'd better not be HBGary that's among the ones looking for bugs...

[frd750]

It is good that App[e finally is doing this . lets hope that if a crack is found ,it will be plugged at once and not 6 or 8 months later as has happened in the past.