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Why, Apple? Snow Leopard has about 1/3 share of Mac traffic on the Web (more than Lion)… yet Snow Leopard's version of Safari no longer gets security updates: bit.ly/WKAbTt https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCTS0INCEAAkLdH.png

everyone (even YOU!) will test your router for public UPnP exposure: https://www.grc.com/x/ne... And do the classic port scan too, if you haven't before.

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regularly updating my security blog at security.thejoshmeister.... — I just don't get on Plurk much. If you're interested, you can subscribe via e-mail (FeedBurner) there so you don't miss any posts.

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