Simon

Cumbria

IT

Why should it provoke a storm of protest ? For a change it's a sensibly written factual piece - instead of the ill-informed "oh dear, a security update, look how crap Macs are" articles we've become used to from much of the press.

But lets look at the facts, this is update 5 of this year, and we're nearly to the end of September. What's the score with Windows ? Even if you roll up all their patches released on any date into one, that's still one a month plus the non-scheduled ones - so at least 10 updates for a product which in theory is more mature than OS X 10.4 (as it's been released for longer and so had more time for bugs to be fixed).

Compare the severity as well. This is one where you HAVE to be in close proximity in order to send wireless packets. So no hacking attempts from the other side of the world !