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11px font with 19px line height? Uf, not for my tired eyes. Fixed with this CSS snippet: p { font: 16px "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, monospace; }
My go-to bookmarklet for poor article design: Readable (not Readability). Someone posted it as a Show HN a few months ago and I haven't looked back since―it's incredibly fast and very customisable. http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
Is this really a commonly held belief? I've never encountered anyone expressing this opinion.
So, let's review the actual exploits listed here (since, the author says, it isn't just FUD): ASLR & MacDefender... Hmm... hardly a damning criticism.
I don't want to point fingers at Chicken Little, because I agree with the thesis; Apple needs to be more serious about OS X security.
Although it's not officially documented, Snow Leopard's sandbox is already quite capable and easier to use than the norm; it's nonsensical to list "sandboxing" and "mandatory access controls" as wins for other operating systems. Lion will make it mandatory for all App Store apps and add features like a secure open dialog (where the OS handles the open dialog and gives the app access to only user-selected files) and a…
This would be "grandparent proof" and would prevent trivial kinds of social engineering used by MacDefender (which targeted clueless users).
Although it's not officially documented, Snow Leopard's sandbox is already quite capable and easier to use than the norm; it's nonsensical to list "sandboxing" and "mandatory access controls" as wins for other operating systems. Lion will make it mandatory for all App Store apps and add features like a secure open dialog (where the OS handles the open dialog and gives the app access to only user-selected files) and a…
I want an optional feature which only allows the OS to execute MacAppStore programs. This would be "grandparent proof" and would prevent trivial kinds of social engineering used by MacDefender (which targeted clueless users).
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