That's as may be, but IMHO good programming security dictates that the writer of the app/OS being exploited is responsible for checking inputs, correct?
Depending on others to be good citizens is one of the paving stones on the road to Hell... Kurt On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> wrote: > You could argue that way. > > > > However, every single email client written to work against Exchange since > version 5.0 could have potentially caused this problem. None of them did > until iOS 6.0. > > > > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: iOS6 devices erroneously take ownership of meetings - Exchange > Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs > > > > Not an Apple fanboi here but I blame Exchange for this one. Shouldn’t > Exchange keep track of the meeting owner and control the appropriate access? > > > > “e.g- the “Additionally, the Apple iOS 6 device may incorrectly let the > device user (attendee) act as the meeting organizer……” > > > > From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:18 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: iOS6 devices erroneously take ownership of meetings - Exchange Team > Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs > > > > FYI- Our Exchange guys say the help desk reported encountered some major > difficulties with this today… > > http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/10/23/ios6-devices-erroneously-take-ownership-of-meetings.aspx > > e.g- the “Additionally, the Apple iOS 6 device may incorrectly let the > device user (attendee) act as the meeting organizer. For example, the > attendee can send meeting updates or cancellations to all the original > meeting attendees.” part in the associated KB article. > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2768774 > > As in one of the more significant events was that a high-level exec > declined a meeting and it got removed from >400 calendars. > > ouch > > > > ________________________________ > > PG&E is committed to protecting our customers' privacy. > To learn more, please visit > http://www.pge.com/about/company/privacy/customer/ > > ________________________________ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
