Lion security issue(s) 1.0

Since yesterday I just posted about how secure OS X Lion is, today I took a look around for possible flaws and security issues and guess what I've found. Passware Kit Forensic is a software for passwords recovery, and the last version can retrieve passwords from a Mac OS X Lion computer in a few minutes, regardless of password lenght. The software uses the content that is stored in the system memory and reads it via Firewire. This means that login passwords that are stored in the system memory, even when the computer is in sleep mode or locked, are used to get possibly unauthorized access to a system.
The recommendation to protect yourself from this vulnerability is to simply turn your Mac off and not let it sit in sleep mode on your desk (which seems to be rather common sense to me).
Here Don Resinger from Cnet explains the whole thing in detail.

The King of the jungle

OS X Lion has been out for almost a month. When it came out different opinions arose on the net, people were confrotning pros and cons and even mentioned "hidden features". Now you all know that I am a Linux lover, but I have to stress the true reason why I suggest to upgrade to Lion: security. One of the moste heard complaints about Lion involves the lack of support for PowerPc applications, but if you're familiar with Unix shell commands here you can find how to overcome the issue.
For what it concerns me, I love it!!!

The Wizard of OS

First of all, Happy New Year Folks!!

I wanted to excuse myself for being absent for such a long time, but I've been pretty swamped lately. I will be until the fourth of February actually.

Coming back to the topic of this blog, technology and social media in general, I have to say that I've been experimenting on Ubuntu during these last days. Let me say that I've never experienced such an OS before, it has every feature you could look for, it gives you full compatibility with the two major OS around (you know them, come on...), and it is completely open source as the majority of you may already know.

Above: Ubuntu's desktop GUI

I was discussing yesterday with a friend of mine, he pointed out that it is impossible for a free OS to be better than what the industry offers to customers. I can perfectly see his point of view, but it is a common mistake (at least in informatics and technology in general) to think that what you pay for has more value that what you don't pay for. It's not like that, nowadays the best technology is the one you can build and share. Profit making corporations can't understand this logic, GNU philosophy is a far horizon to them and they're looking at it like nomads lost in a desperate desert of ideas.

Accept that the new technologies of today and tomorrow are and will be built by a community of users, that the only way to improve knowledge is by sharing. Today it's possible to share real time thoughts and the bright minds of our world are not going to let this opportunity fade away.

To everyone among you my readers (no matter how small the number may be) who are not aware of what Ubuntu is, I strongly advice to take a look what this community is doing.

Be brave. Be part of the conversation. I'm sure you all got something to say. Share it.