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MacGeekery has a short piece with examples on how to use a malformed Installer package (.pkg) on Mac OS X to ‘insert user accounts with administrator rights and change root-owned system configuration or binary files without prompting the vast majority of Mac OS X users for a password of any kind.’

The article notes that this issue was brought up on the Apple Discussion Boards 6 weeks back and that it was noted there as a duplicate / known issue. It also gives as an example the installation of Parallels, the popular virtualization software, which uses the described technique, but not for nefarious purposes. More …

Macworld UK reports on the embarrassing faux pas Microsoft has committed. But only in Quebec. Fortunately for them.

Apparently, ‘zoune’ or ‘bizoune’ are colloquial and rather more polite ways of referring to male/female genitalia, particularly when speaking to children. We assume the fact checker on the Zune project at MS has already got the pink slip. More …