Security Catastrophe: have you changed your passwords?

[NickFitz]

You maybe joking but I know a client that had a admin password of 'password' on their CMS

I knew a mercantile insurance broker who had that as the FTP password on their web server

[NickFitz]

Mac's don't use openssl so aren't directly impacted.

Actually they do, but the version of OpenSSL they ship with, even in Mavericks, is older than the flaw. Just for once, their habit of using rather ancient versions of standard Unix stuff has paid off

[NickFitz]

My view is that Apple is the platform for people that don't know any better.

Is that why so many software developers use them?

[MyUserName]

Is that why so many software developers use them?

I have not seen a software developer using an apple mac for about 15 years. Even then they were only used because of bizarre legacy GUI file formats.

[NickFitz]

Here is the guy that wrote the code, I sure wouldn't like to be him right now, there weren't any measures for memcpy (or equivalent) buffer checking, apparently the code was written in Ruby (although not 100% sure on this).

No, it's written in C. Here's the commit in question: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/c...2116ad75f822b1

Scroll down a few screensworth and somebody's added a note in the relevant diff, explaining the problem.

[eek]

I have not seen a software developer using an apple mac for about 15 years. Even then they were only used because of bizarre legacy GUI file formats.

Aren't you in banking. Outside that niche is common to see them as they are brilliant for hosting virtual machines, flicking between VS and intellij is simplicity itself...

[NickFitz]

I have not seen a software developer using an apple mac for about 15 years. Even then they were only used because of bizarre legacy GUI file formats.

Funnily enough, I only ever see developers using anything other than Macs when I'm at a client who is still living with the misery of developing for Microsoft platforms. Everywhere else, which is most places outside the narrow confines of the City, the vast majority use Macs - I even know many Linux types who run it on a Mac just for the hardware build quality.

[SpontaneousOrder]

I have not seen a software developer using an apple mac for about 15 years. Even then they were only used because of bizarre legacy GUI file formats.

Really? In my experience you can spot the contractor consultants a mile off because they're always the ones, having bought their own kit, walking about with a macbook pro.
It seems almost ubiquitous these days for anyone presenting a technical presentation/demo to be running IDEA on a mbp. In the Java circles I find myself in at least.

[VectraMan]

Funnily enough, I only ever see developers using anything other than Macs when I'm at a client who is still living with the misery of developing for Microsoft platforms. Everywhere else, which is most places outside the narrow confines of the City, the vast majority use Macs - I even know many Linux types who run it on a Mac just for the hardware build quality.

What a strange alternate universe you must live in.

We have a Mac here; it gets used for testing with Safari, not for any other reason. And the anti-Windows people all use Linux on a PC. I've certainly seen Mac Book Pros being used in the business world, but they always run Windows.

[NickFitz]

What a strange alternate universe you must live in.

We have a Mac here; it gets used for testing with Safari, not for any other reason. And the anti-Windows people all use Linux on a PC. I've certainly seen Mac Book Pros being used in the business world, but they always run Windows.

But from over here, it's your universe that's alternate and strange