An e-mail to Steve Jobs

[petercat]

To: Steve@Apple.com
From: [me]
Subject: This isn't insanely great, this is just insane!
Date: Wed Aug 05 10:44:25 2009

On 8/3/09, Apple Product Security wrote:
GarageBand 5.1 is now available and addresses the following:
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-2198
Impact: A user's web activity may be tracked by third parties and advertisers
Description: When GarageBand is opened, Safari's preferences are changed to always accept cookies. The default preference is to accept cookies only for the sites being visited. The altered setting may allow third parties and advertisers to track a user's web activity. This update addresses the issue by not changing the preference setting. Users who have run previous versions of GarageBand should confirm that their Safari preferences are set as desired.

What's gone wrong with Apple lately? This sort of behavior isn't insanely great -- this is insane! I'm glad Apple has fixed it, but GarageBand should never have been allowed to do this!

I hope it's just a matter of something falling through the cracks while you were away, and I hope you have good health in the future.

Best wishes,
[me]