i-eclectica.org

Quite amazing, the overtly sexist attitudes advertising had some decades ago. I don’t think sexism has disappeared in that industry though; it’s just camouflaged more. Quite astonishing also the ignorance in terms of negative health effects … although in some of the ads shown here it might not have been just ignorance but outright deception (as historical records relating to the tobacco industry show). And as for lard: our fast food society is really only a variation on the same them - maybe we should go back to tapeworms as a cure … .

These guys won this year’s first price in the PC demo category at breakpoint 07 in Germany. It’s great video rendering and, apart from that, farbrausch packed the whole demo into just 181,248 bytes (!). Below is a LoFi YoTube version of the piece; to download the proper demo, click here.

A New York-based security researcher spent less than 12 hours to identify and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser that allowed him to remotely gain full user rights to the hacked machine [The Register].

This is not surprising, given that the amount of attacks on the Macintosh platform are increasing tenfold. Last year, Apple released security updates only twice during the first four months; this year, it had to release them every month. In comparison Microsoft has released patches for Vista in three out of the first first months of this year; Apple had to patch more in OS X then Microsoft has had to in Vista so far this year. And further evidence of the growing vulnerability of of the Mac’s OS was also the month of Apple Bugs, which released around thirty security flaws in the operating system and programs that run in it.

The above reference to Vista is not to say that it is more secure - it is not. What this trend does though is effectively throwing cold water on tired and tiring claims from Apple and its many supporters that the Mac is all but immune from the kind of security attacks more regularly perpetrated against Windows-based machines; the Mac is getting targeted way more than it used to be.