http://rapidshare.com/files/226023664/Screen-Sharing.zip.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/135649/2008/09/screen_sharing_buttons.html?lsrc=rss_main

What I should have said, to make myself clearer is “don’t take things away that people have got used to without expecting them to be annoyed about it. EVEN IF they were undocumented/unofficial/hidden/accidental/serendipitous”.

Documented or not, people get used to something if they use it for long enough. If it survives several updates, it becomes a “feature” regardless of whether or not it’s official.

And when people get used to something, they can sometime become dependent to a greater or lesser extent on it.

Stretching the analogy to breaking point… Think of it as a common law marriage rather than official matrimony. You’d still be sad if you lost your partner of some years, regardless whether or not it was an official marriage.

As for details? You wanna get down and dirty, then BIND is now fixed so not much point writing about it and in any case is a relatively minor problem compared to some of the hairier exploits out there… Such as root privilege escalation without password and other nastiness…

Still, we’ve been hideously lucky to date as none have caused documented problems (as of mid September ‘08).

But this particular problem post on my blog has generated more than a thousand hits in the last few days, so I think I’m not alone in wanting the buttons back that shouldn’t have ever been there… More fool us.

Hope our luck holds out until Apple pull their fingers out of their arses.

i don’t mean to be crude, but where the hell did you get that idea?

those features weren’t even “given away”. they were undocumented and unreleased, and there was no reason not to remove them to save an extra few k of disk space, or whatever other reason.

there are plenty of other things to get upset about, like how well Apple handled patching the BIND stuff, but frankly, this isn’t one of them.

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Well put.

Sure the functions were “Unofficial” but there’s a generally unspoken rule that you don’t take away something you’ve given freely before and ask $299 for it.

For such a “cool” company, Apple sure as hell could teach Microsoft a lesson or two in “getting your customers to bend over and even provide their own vaseline.”

Me, I went for ARD.

Download the old Screen Sharing.app and copy it into your ‘/System/Library/Core Services/’ folder. Apply the hack again.

Software Update will keep bugging you to upgrade, but just ignore it.