When screen shots go bad

changelog — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:47:19 +0000

Browsing the iTunes App Store today, I found a priceless application that turns your iPhone into a flash light. Needless to say, I went on and checked the screen shots. So, without further ado, here they are:

As Marcel Molina puts it, “I like that there are two screen shots for the Light app“. Nicely said.

Mac OS X – Epic Fail

changelog — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:16:04 +0000

While getting up to speed with Slashdot, I found an interesting article about a security breach on Mac OS X that allows user escalation through AppleScript.

Trying it on the terminal works, but, as they say, the user needs to have physical access to the machine. So, Patrício suggested trying to access through SSH to see if it works, and it did.

Slashdot member gombah99 posted a tip on how to neutralize it non-destructively:

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/
sudo tar -czf ARDAgent.app.gz ARDAgent.app
sudo chmod 600 ARDAgent.app.gz
sudo rm -r ARDAgent.app

Here’s to you, Apple Un^H^HSecurity Team!

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When screen shots go bad

Mac OS X – Epic Fail