To: Swordmaker
No troll intended here, Sword, but do you know why they would have used a Mac to test the POC? Says in the article the exploit was tested on a Mac. Just curious if Apple’s platform is “better” for this test vs. Windows or Linux.
4 posted on
02/19/2018 4:02:31 PM PST by
rarestia
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To: rarestia
Lots of possibilities - but while I’m not Swordmaker - I would suspect that this is because there are so scarce other exploits on the Mac platform that they are less likely to get “contaminated” test results?
11 posted on
02/19/2018 4:20:15 PM PST by
TheBattman
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To: rarestia
No troll intended here, Sword, but do you know why they would have used a Mac to test the POC? Says in the article the exploit was tested on a Mac. Just curious if Apple’s platform is “better” for this test vs. Windows or Linux. I suspect it is because a lot of programmers use Macs for development because you can run every operating system simultaneously on a fast Mac. . . Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, essentially everything you are going to develop for.
21 posted on
02/20/2018 12:55:41 PM PST by
Swordmaker
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