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The End of the Power PC?
Apple will no longer issue security updates for PowerPC Macs
After a recent security update to address ongoing root certificate vulnerability, Apple sort-of revealed they would no longer offer security updates for the many Mac users still running PowerPC-based machines. The recent update even shunned users of Tiger, 10.4 and Leopard, 10.5, meaning only users running 10.6 and 10.7 versions of OS X could take advantage of the update.
The recent fix to the DigiNotar root certificates issue may have left many users out in the cold, though it is still possible to fix the issue manually by disabling the service on older Macs. However, the lack of a fix for users with older OSs suggests that security updates in future will also pass these users by, resulting in a huge number of users being wilfully put at risk by Apple’s policy of built-in obsolescence.
(Source: CNet)
Epicentre Says: “Apple appears to have turned its back on many users with this update, with thousands of users facing the possibility of having to not only upgrade their operating system to receive security updates, but also upgrade their hardware. Whilst in a sense this does ensure some level of future-proofing when it comes to security, many may see this as a highly-cynical approach to keeping the web, and the many machines attached to it, safe.”
