International Mac Podcast

Although Stu doesn’t like it when I do this, I don’t see the point in wasting my time writing a full post. Click HERE to see the absurdity.

One of the things I really love about OS X is its Unix underpinnings. Under the hood we get all the *nix tools and utilities I’ve come to know and love. Printing with CUPS, remote shell with OpenSSH, Windows sharing with SAMBA, web publishing with Apache, and so on and so forth. This gives OS X great power, but it also places a great responsibility on Apple. Just like with any other software, vulnerabilities surface in open source programs. In general the open source community is very responsive to security issues, and patches are released quickly. Those patches protect those who update, but they leave those who don’t even more vulnerable. The reason for this is that the patches can generally be reverse engineered, making it easy for the bad guys to attack un-patched machines. In order to keep OS X secure Apple need to push out patches in the open source components in OS X to users as quickly as possible. This is where Apple fall down, they are notoriously slow at getting patches out.

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For quite some time there has been a jailbreak app that allows fairly consistent voice dialing. HOWEVER, if you kept your Iphone on the up and up (under threat of death and dismemberment from Darth Jobser and crew), there is now a voice dial app hitting the store that brings the noise and the funk.

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This week’s panel are : Stu Helm, Lewis King and special guest Jonathan Davies

We talk about Apple’s Q3 results, give you the latest in iPhone news, talk about Mobile Me.

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Sadly this week’s show was not actually live, due to some serious server issues over at TalkShoe, so Stu, Lewis, Chris and Bart hopped on Skype to record the episode. It did feel weird not having our audience but we muddled through.

As you’ll hear we had some audio issues this week, Garageband crashed on me during the recording so we had to use one of the panel’s skype recordings!

Hope you enjoy the show, links for this episode can be found on our delicious tag

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A few weeks back I posted about how there was a major flaw in DNS and how the details were being kept secret to give everyone time to patch. I did say that it would be a matter of when this got out, and not if. When turns out to be today. Details of the flaw were accidentally published on a blog and then un-published but once information gets out onto the net it’s out. There’s no way to put that genie into the bottle. I was able to find the details of the flaw, so if I can, the bad guys certainly can!

If you haven’t done so already, go to www.doxpara.com and click the button to check your DNS server:

Should the test fail, you need to do two things. Firstly you need to switch your DNS service to a safe service such as the free OpenDNS. Once that’s done you’re safe, however a few poor ISPs block DNS to all servers but their own so if you’re very unfortunate you will be unable to protect yourself. Secondly you need to contact your ISP to complain. It is not acceptable that hey are being slow about something as big as this. If they don’t give you a good response consider switching ISP. If they are not competent enough to keep their servers patched do you trust them?

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First of all, I’d like to say a massive sorry for the late release of this show. My excuse is simple, I’ve been ill this week and also had some problems encoding the file, which were rather frustrating.

This week’s panel consists of Stu Helm, Lewis King, Rob Hanson, Bart Busschots and Aaron Dyer. We mostly talk about what made the launch of the iPhone 3G a raving disaster in the UK and US and talk about some of the new apps available for iPhone / iPod Touch owners in the App Store

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