Re: Where's the Steve Jobs of IT security?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:24:56 -0400
From:                   Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>

> I only use my MacBook for development on iPhones/iPods/iPads. But
> Apple has managed to seriously degrade the development tools and brick
> the hardware. My 6 month old iPod (purchased from Apple) is dead after
> the iOS 5 updates last week. After the Lion migration, my MacBook was
> dead. 

I've noted problems with my Mac before (such as 
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1508 ) but, as coincidence would 
have it, yesterday I went to charge it up to take to a meeting--and the wretched 
thing won't charge.  Power information tells me the battery has only had 47 
cycles, and is "Normal"ly healthy, but it won't charge.  (Was Charlie Miller right?  
Do I have a new and unknown Mac battery virus?)

When something does go wrong with an Apple machine, there seems to be no way 
to make it right.

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