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Mac Forum / Applications / Media Player / June 2005Possible Media Player security problem
Hullo, folks: I've found something which I think could be a small security problem in the current version Media Player for OS X, and verified it with a few other users. I haven't seen any references to it elsewhere, even when searching this group. It's nothing very bad to fix, but I would very much like to see it taken care of soon. Rather than disclose the flaw publically, I'd prefer if someone from MS would contact me at mnoel2%gmail%com, so that I can responsibly convey this information. For the record, some sort of feedback@macbu.microsoft.com email address would be greatly appreciated. PS: Installers are so 1990s. And relying on stuffit to open .bin or .hqx is lame. All the cool kids are using .app folders in .dmg's -- all you need to open those is a Finder. > Hullo, folks: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > .hqx is lame. All the cool kids are using .app folders in .dmg's -- all > you need to open those is a Finder. they don't read their own news groups  Signature------------------------------------------- Swedish Webcams <http://www.webcams.zap.to> ------------------------------------------- > they don't read their own news groups You could e-mail me and if I can repro the problem, I'll try to see if I can send it to MS, but as far as WMP is concerned, it has proven completely useless in the past. You could also try to use the feedback pages for WMP http://www.microsoft.com/mac/feedback/suggestion.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/wish.aspx Corentin WMP FAQ: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30 blog on MS apps for Mac: http://www.cortig.net/wordpress Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire > > they don't read their own news groups > You could e-mail me and if I can repro the problem Pardon me, but isn't that like telling ESR or Bruce Perens I have a Linux kernel problem? They can't do anything about it, though they performs a kind of "MVP" function for Linux folks. I guess I'll just call their "report a bug" phoneline, although I'm pretty surprised that MS can't spare one guy to admin their own product's official newsgroup. Nice to see, in their push to increase security, how much they're listening to their customers and making it easy to voice concerns. > > > they don't read their own news groups > > You could e-mail me and if I can repro the problem > > Pardon me, but isn't that like telling ESR or Bruce Perens I have a > Linux kernel problem? They can't do anything about it, though they > performs a kind of "MVP" function for Linux folks. Well my name is on the MS web site somewhere on: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvplist.aspx?Product=Consu mer+-+Macintosh or on: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups (careful about the carriage returns). It tells you that even though I don't work for MS, I've been acknowledged by them and have *some very limited* possibilities to escalade such problems. Now if you don't trust me, you can always use the two pages I mentioned before to report the problem directly to them > I guess I'll just call their "report a bug" phoneline, although I'm > pretty surprised that MS can't spare one guy to admin their own > product's official newsgroup. They hardly ever post in any of their newsgroups. The purpose of these groups is not for them to offer support but it's a purely peer to peer help system. To somehow improve this, they created the MVP program and I've also heard that though they don't post in them, they often read many of these groups (I'm not sure they read this one though). > Nice to see, in their push to increase > security, how much they're listening to their customers and making it > easy to voice concerns. We'll see if they respond to your report. Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire |
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