Fwd: A second look at the Mac OS X Leopard firewall

[Derek Chesterfield]

On 31 Oct 2007, at 13:23, Matt Johnston wrote:

> On 31 Oct 2007, at 12:32, LuKreme wrote:
>> A lot of blather, some of which is symply hysteria and FUD  
>> disguised as 'revelation'.
>> "Oh Noes!  The time server is running!  Panic attack!"
>> Idiots.
>> Doesn't Heise-security have a history? Or is that someone else?
>
> The fact they have unreproduceable "evidence" there was a Kerberos  
> server running tells me there's faults in their testing methodology.
>
> Not much different to GreenPeace and their recent outing of Apple.  
> You know the one where they pointed out that Apple was doing  
> everything they said and was in complete legal compliance and, in  
> fact, was ahead of some of the companies that were higher up on  
> GreenPeace's scale?

Kerberos is now used by Leopard to authenticate Bonjour connections. I  
guess the daemon gets started when needed, and will hang around  
afterwards.

See <http://www.isfym.com/Site/Blog/Entries/2007/10/30_Of_cats_and_dogs.html 
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