Karu’s blog

Everyone must have seen the news of Apple’s Safari for Windows. And the news of the security bugs: According to David Maynor’s blog:

In a blog entry, Maynor explains, “I’d like to note that we found a totl [sic] of 6 bugs in an afternoon, 4 DoS and 2 remote code execution bugs. We have weaponized one of those to be reliable and its diffrent [sic] that what Thor has found.”

Digg has an entry also: http://digg.com/software/Windows_Safari_bugs_and_exploits_popping_up_like_hotcakes

It is so far not clear if these bugs are found in Safari for MacOS. My hypothesis: Apple is intentionally releasing a security bug ridden version of Safari. I expect Apple to soon make the claim/observation that Safari for Mac does not have these bugs and blame the bugs on the Windows platform and not on Safari. And back up this claim by saying Safari for MacOS does not have these bugs. While in reality the Windows version of Safari is probably intentionally bug ridden!

How does this help Apple? Perpetuates the myth that MacOS is less succeptible to virus and security attacks. I think perpetuating this myth and thus getting some customers to cross over is more valuable than browser market share.

Now – this is an interesting acquisition. Google has bought Peakstream, at least according to the Register. Peakstream mostly specialized in data-parallel style multi-threading with support for plain-old multi cores also

Google is releasing APIs that can be used for rapid s/w development. Could be start of a big revolution in s/w development. The level of concurrency assumed and automatically provided in the system is pretty neat. Provides database store capability and interfacing with Javascript.

Google is also providing support for Google Reader to work offline using the Google Gears APIs. It is amazingly painless and very efficient. Click on a button and it downloads a bunch of RSS feeds to disk. Very slick.