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[Discuss] OSX Mavericks root exploit, and Safari



... ${PRODUCTS} should be considered dead since they aren't getting
critical security patch -- use on other than air-gapped physically-secure
systems to be discouraged.

<polemic>

Suppliers who walk away from their code bases must eventually become
subject to the rule of law.

  On Abandonment, IEEE S&P, July/August 2013
  http://geer.tinho.net/ieee/ieee.sp.geer.1307.pdf

</polemic>


--dan




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