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Apple Security Updates

Apple has released an updated Security Advisory, to fix two problems introduced in the previous rev. Not a big deal, unless you happened to be trying to deal with their ftpd. As we’ve pointed out (PDF) in the past, security updates are a race between attacks and defense, and there are trade-offs you can make.

I’m still trying to find out what’s in Apple Remote Desktop security update, to make a good decision about if I should install it.