Reprinted from TidBITS by permission; reuse governed by Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND 3.0. TidBITS has offered years of thoughtful commentary on Apple and Internet topics. For free email subscriptions and access to the entire TidBITS archive, visit http://www.tidbits.com/ ExtraBITS for 29 September 2014 TidBITS Staff In this week's collection of ExtraBITS links, we look at the viability of Mac OS 9 in 2014, why old security vulnerabilities just won't die, and Apple's iPhone stress-testing process. [1]Using Mac OS 9 in 2014 -- Andrew Cunningham of Ars Technica was challenged by his coworkers to use Mac OS 9 for a few days. Armed with a 2002 PowerBook G4, Cunningham set out to do his job with the now