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kernel panic! at the disco

Hey its the BBC, so right there you know they are biased.

kernel panic in the library with the candlestick.

The flaw's a bug, now aint that a kicker. I'm a happy Mac user once again....

FUD is not what it was before. It was needed days and days of heated discussion to finally uncover FUD machines at work as they actually were: BS.

It is getting faster. Good.

FUD put to rest. Still, remains the issue: When idiotic pundits will stop to be fear mongers with Apple users community?

In fact, Colonel Panic was recently demoted after this incident. He's now only Major Panic.

My bag of Jiffy-pop popcorn experienced a kernel panic one time in the microwave. Tough stuff to watch...

"kernel panic! at the disco"

let's groove...

So, if it's "just a normal bug", is he saying that it doesn't give elevated privileges to an attacker?

Apple will have this squashed in an update. And until then, unless someone out there actually tries to exploit this, there's nothing to worry about.

why is there a link to an AOL service that doesn't even support macintosh computers on this site???

gmeance,

Not every visitor to this site is using a Mac... yet.

Kajl,

Then its a good thing that they don't know when you click on the AOL ad with a default Mac setup you get, "Player is not supported by macintosh" that would sure make them stick with their PC a little longer. Oops.

Again, why is there a link to AOL on this site?

where's zune tang? I need some laughs!

Personally I'm plagued by a lot of Private Panics.

It's still a denial of service attack, in a sense.

"In fact, Colonel Panic was recently demoted after this incident. He's now only Major Panic."

Good one Jimbo, laughed my butt off!

Just hope he's not promoted to General Panic!

get a CLUE - it was Colonel Panic up the bunghole with a candlestick

Jimbo, I laughed my butt off too. I just put it back on. But, don't change your day job yet. You must repeat atleast three times before I will become your agent.

I just read through the full article and followed the link over to the MoKB blog site. The dialogue that comes out of Imh is pathetically childish and incredibly condescending. He spends more time name calling than he does supporting his claims.

He obviously does not know what he's talking about and has an incredibly hard time with anyone questioning him.

Perhaps behind closed doors he's Private Panic.

"So, if it's "just a normal bug", is he saying that it doesn't give elevated privileges to an attacker?"

sigh. A kernel panic brings the whole system to a crashing halt, it's the Mac version of BSOD.

Ain't NOBODY got elevated privileges then.

This also means that BBC's journalistic integrity is also debunked, regardless what code of ethics and standards of professionalism they purport to observe.

The BBC's "journalistic integrity" has been down in the gutter along with CBS and others of that ilk that like to create slanted "news" stories for quite some time now, so this is certainly no surprise.

I wish I had a pretty kernel panic instead of an ugly blue screen.

Welcome to the social.

Huh, I had a feeling that someone would come along and tell us what we already knew. It seems that most of these so called security flaws are just flawed reports by people who think they can fool us or something. The facts always prove otherwise.

A denial of service attack is when many computers flood your network until it cannot communicate anymore. A kernal panic is a system error and that's all it is.

Wikipedia Definition of Denial of Service attack.
* Force the victim computer(s) to reset or consume its resources such that it can no longer provide its intended service.
* Obstruct the communication media between the intended users and the victim in such that they can no longer communicate adequately.

I don't see either of these happening with a simple disk image kernal panic error.

BBC report is so full of it. FUD that is.

I have had two kernel panics since using OS X (2001).

Both occured while waking the machine from sleep.

G4 dual 867 1gb, 160gb, 10.4.8.

Interesting that you raise the BBC's journalistic integrity..

Believe it or not, I have it in writing that they only published this news item because of the 'smugness of Mac users over security..'

You can be assured that was not allowed to rest.

"* Force the victim computer(s) to reset"

"I don't see either of these happening with a simple disk image kernal panic error."

Doing somehting which causes the OS to panic would be a classic Denial of Service attack.

yeah biased BBC
im sticking with FOX they neva lie

Don't be too hard on "the Beeb". You can imagine how many hits they would get if they could work up a good article on "the virus that is going to wipe out all Macintoshes woldwide on December 25". Think of it. The holy grail of the Mac bashers.

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