On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 07:52 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
In case you've been using Apple OS X 10.3 (Panther)'s FileVault (Rijndael128 on ~/) there's a yet unfixed bug. Answer no if requested to regain lost disk space in encrypted directory[1]
Notice that while the screen lock buffer overrun has been fixed, there are still unresolved issues with it[2]
It's astounding to me that that Apple failed to do basic QC on its major new release. The problem with the Firewire 800 drives using the Oxford 922 chips is inexcusable. Did Apple never bother to run the new version of OS X with drives made by vendors other than Apple? (I'm assuming here the Firewire 800 problem is not present in Apple drives, about which I am not 100% convinced.) Apple should've had a team of testers running the new 10.3 version, as with each new version, on a variety of machine configurations, keeping careful track of incompatibilities and gotchas. That something so gross as trashing external drives (the very popular ones from LaCie and others) went unnoticed is just plain inexcusable. I have a perfectly new copy of "Panther" OS X 10.3 sitting ready to be installed on the machine I am on right now. But I won't install it until Apple does its QC. And since I'm still on a dial-up connection and cannot easily download 100 MB of "updated" versions, I plan to contact Apple when the new fix is released and tell them to send me a new CD-ROM. As an Apple shareholder since 1984, this really sucks. What does Apple think they are, Microsoft? --Tim May