[DM-MUG] Safari RSS Security bug for 10.5 & Windows

[Bryan Baker]

The other "fix" for this is to simply set another RSS reader to be  
default - I switched to Mail for the moment.
It's been "different" using Mail for RSS (and I'm kind of an rss  
junkie) but it's certainly workable as a temp fix.
One cool thing is it sorts into date threads for you which helps to  
organize things if you haven't been looking in on a feed for a while.



On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:37 AM, David McLaughlin wrote:
>> I am not experiencing any problems with Safari/10.5.
>
> It's a security bug.  If you go to a web site that exploits the bug  
> they can basically look at anything on you Mac.  You will not  
> "notice" the problem.
>
> Another solution is to use Firefox
>
>> Should I wait till an "official fix" comes from apple?
>
> Since I personally prefer Safari over Firefox as a browser, I  
> installed RCDefaultApp as indicated by the site
>
>
> http://brian.mastenbrook.net/display/27
>
>
> With Apple, sometimes they patch security holes quickly and  
> sometimes it takes several months.
>
> The only reason I brought up this one at all, is that this  
> particular security breach has a wide scope (the contents of you Mac  
> being exposed) if someone happens to take advantage of the bug.
>
> Sorry if this doesn't help you decide what to do.
>
> David D. McLaughlin
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