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On Tuesday, Computerworld published a story about so-called security flaws in mac os X that affect the enterprise. The six arguments actually amount to a collection of shibboleths. Security Flaw #1: Apple Updates. The argument is that security updates pop up unannounced and insufficient information is provided to make a decision as to whether to roll out the update.

While iphone 3G shortages still abound, Mac bloggers have still been hitting the new handset from all angles -- including from the inside out. Of course, there's more to Apple than the iPhone -- how about the company's rising PC market share, which now puts Apple in third place in the U.S. Also, Apple TV took a couple punches this week from microsoft and Sony, and MobileMe is perhaps not so pushy after all.

A City of San Francisco systems administrator is a living testimonial to the importance of preventing any one person in an organization from having too much power. Terry Childs, who is now in jail, holds in his brain the passwords that will let city officials access San Francisco's Fiber Wide Area Network.