Month of Apple Bugs, not strictly a Mac problem

Well, we’ve seen the first of the promised bugs for Apple and Apple products as a part of the “Month of Apple Bugs“. And perhaps unsurprisingly, the first bug is also applicable to Windows as well, being a buffer overflow vulnerability for QuickTime. There’s also some saying that this may be rather difficult to implement.

So in short, this month of bugs that’s supposed to take Mac fans down a peg…also exposes holes in Windows. And maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. Way to start it off with a bang, there!

As a Mac fan who realizes Apple software is written by humans just like any other software, which will inevitably have the occasional bug, perhaps I’m not the demographic they’re looking to deflate. But really, I think you’d be hard pressed to find even the most rabid Mac fan who believes Apple software is 100% bulletproof. That’s just plain deluded. I think most Mac users at this point are of the opinion that it’s more akin to the risk of mosquito bites in August at Crater Lake, versus in January at the South Pole. There’s just a lot more nasty critters flying around the Windows environs than the OS X environs for the time being.

But even from a strictly researcher perspective, I am curious to see what this month brings up, both in terms of exploits and the discussion around them. Expect to see lots more here on that subject as things progress!