It's a beta; give them a break. Beta software has bugs. Most GA software has bugs.

Judge em 4 months after it's officially released.

Of course it's riddled with security holes, it's running on Windows.

MacOS is safer than windows because hackers can't be arsed to dig around for Mac software flaws when the same amount of effort will allow them to crack/hack/exploit an audience 20 times larger if they aim at Windows.

It's nice to see the Apple-propagated myth that "Mac programming is more secure" overturned by this simple, yet telling, empirical data.

Apple is clueless when it comes to security.

The only reason they are somewhat secure is because no malware programer gives a crap about 5% of the population using Macs.

Flaws in a beta? SHOCKING NEWS.

I'm sure Apple will blame the security problems on Windows instead of Safari.

Maynor's a rather dubious fellow to be honest, there's plenty about his "never disclose" method of reporting these holes, which strangely all seem to result in him getting blogs hits and not much more.

Still, I'm sure there are plenty of holes, although one has already been traced to Windows' URL handler rather than Safari, seems that Safari needs more checks on the data.

Seems that this is what the Beta program is for - there are bound to be platform differences that need to be coded for and this beta will catch them. It's clearly marked as a beta, so I don't know what the issue is (if Apple are told the issues and they're fixed in a timely manner, another problem with that Maynor fellow is his childish refusal to disclose the details, so they can't even be independently validated).

As for OS security, that's a different thing. Apple have gained from having a sensible base OS and platform, but I'm sure there are holes a-plenty in their proprietary higher level stuff.

Do they affect OSX also? That's what would be interesting.

Safari on Windows is far from interesting.

It's Apple BS like this that makes me loathe Apple. Some nice products (their iMac/G3-G4 products were flat out garbage but Intel has helped them become competitive) but the company itself exists by keeping the sub-100 IQ crowd on an IV of lies and misinformation.

Its called a Beta for a reason. People seem to think that just because something is released, that it is 'finished' when its VERY CLEARLY labeled a beta. They WANT you to find these holes so they can fix it up before its 'final'

jeje..this thing is better than IE with the security holes...jeje

FF FTW. fp!

Apple made a mistake by including Safari on Windows in the keynote and by suggesting that they plan to compete in the Windows browser space.

They should have pitched this as a tool for developers to make sure their stuff will run on macs and iphones. It should have been a low key announcement, not included in the keynote.

Over time, once they worked out all of the kinks, they could have tried to launch it to a broader audience of Windows users. But it was a big mistake to do that now.

In a karma-kind of way, they sort of deserve this --- I'm annoyed at all of the resources being diverted away from OSX development to iPhone development. In some ways, this serves them right.

haha

This whole event has generate a lot of hype. It doesn't seem that exciting to me.

Apple really does want to be like MS!

security through anonymity doesn't work on windows.

a few words need spelling check..here and there on the news item.

the vowels on your keyboard aren't in good shape, man.