Here we go: it's finaly delivery time for the new Anti-glare 17" Unibody Macbook Pro.
Here are some exclusive pictures and hot comments on the beauty:
The new Anti-glare 17", 2,93GHZ, 256 SSD Unibody Macbook Pro is amazing, thin and light. Thanks to its Anti-glare screen that gets ride of the heavy glossy glass and has a light and nice aluminum bezel.
The screen mat finish looks exactly like the one on the old 17" MacBook Pros (but it's a new 9CAC model), and even if it doesn't offer the same luminosity as a gen 1 LED MacBook Air LCD, its light is about the one of an 30" Apple Cinema Display.
The new Mac Osx Built 9G2141 has a better colorsync profile than the older builts that will make your screen turn to blue.
The biggest deception, and not a small one, goes to the SSD wich is in fact a 256 Toshiba that won't read at speeds higher than 100 MO per seconds, wich is clearly a joke comparing to the speeds the Intel X-25 SSD reaches in reading ( 250 MO per seconds). Some of us would have really expected Apple to put the new 256 Samsung wich is rumored to compete with the X-25.
The overall impression holds in a simple word though: perfection.
Lat week photos of the claimed new Mac mini were released on the web. Some websites were considering the device as a fake; based on some subjective analysis (indeed the photo quality was not good enough for concluding anything from Photoshop filter analysis). Probably to demonstrate that it was not be a fake, a video featuring the same device has now been released. If one can still generate a fake with a video, it is much more difficult than with a photo:
Direct access to the video:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2470706/mac_mini_2009_edition/
during the "Black Hat DC cyber security conference, taking place in Washington, Vincenzo Iozzo, an Italian student in Security research, unveiled an attack procedure of Mac OS X based on a malicious code loaded in memory into a program's executable space, making the exploit invisible once the computer is switched off. If such RAM-based technique is not really new, the fact that is entirely take place in the RAM is quite innovative. The malicious code is infected in the memory allocated to a program in progress, guided to the active binary stored in the file format entitled Mach-O.
The demonstration was performed using Safari as a vector application. According to the detailed procedure, it relies on unspecific means needed to be available for the attack to take place. It is unclear if such requirements are easily achieved for a hacker from a distant location. Vincenzo expects to port this procedure to the iPhone OS in order to make code-based identification protections useless.
Users should keep in mind that Back Hat conferences are organized to make such attack/defense procedure against IT system public. Unveiling an exploit concept usually allows OS developers to release a fix, and in most cases the attack will remain a hypothesis and will never be used in any virus, Trojan or spyware.
The CERT-IST recently published an article dedicated to a RAM-based exploit aiming to recover HD encryption keys (concept unveiled in summer 2008).
