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Leopard Firewall: What a Turnoff!!1!Shock and horror hits the blogosphere.
The Leopard firewall is off by default. Shock and horror. Abandon ship.
This story is going everywhere fast. It's at the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7071017.stm
It's at Slashdot.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/188214
It's at CNET.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9807471-7.html
It's been dugg.
http://digg.com/apple/Holes_in_Leopard_s_firewall
Someone called Lisa Vaas is having a field day at eWeek.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2209676,00.asp
A lovely site called 'Fudzilla' calls it 'useless' and says it can't filter out untrusted networks.
http://fudzilla.com/?option=com_content&task=view&id=3941
Further stories are available from Dark Productions, The Inquirer, vnunet, Tech Zones, Life Hacker, ZD Asia - and about a zillion gajillion more sites. Try this URL on for size. At time of writing it yielded 221,000 results.
http://www.google.com/search?as_epq=Leopard+firewall
Google News yielded only 37 results but this can't be correct considering the hysteria out there.
http://news.google.com/news?as_epq=Leopard+firewall
Are you running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?
Is your firewall turned off?
TURN IT ON.
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