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By Munir Kotadia

Published: Monday 21 March 2005


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Anonymous


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Hell


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Pitchfork Sharpener


Comment

LOL. What a freakin' joke.

I've read these kind of statements before from "security companies". They say things like "We found 37 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X!", but when you look at exactly *what* these vulnerabilities are, 99.9% of them either require physical access to the machine, or an admin password, or some other unlikely circumstance. The few remotely executable hacks out there give an attacker much less of an opportunity to do damage than what you get on a WinBox. If a "hacker" has the password to your machine and/or unsupervised physical access to it, you are SCREWED no matter what OS you are running.

Social engineering will always be a problem. I'm sure it can't be *that* hard to put a file out on filesharing networks or email that claims to be "INTERNAL APPLE G5 POWERBOOK SCHEMATICS" and trick people into installing something nasty on their systems.



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