[Swordmaker]

Hmmmm... what do you know. A fairly accurate article on Mac security.

[Swordmaker]

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[Ancient Drive]

don’t forget that firewire hack too.

[dayglored]

> Hmmmm... what do you know. A fairly accurate article on Mac security.

It will be good to get some balance between the Know-Nothings of the "Macs are invulnerable" sort, and the Know-Nothings of the "Macs are only safe because they're a niche" sort.

All computers are vulnerable. The Mac -- or rather the UNIX that is under the hood of OS-X -- is more secure than any other commercial operating system available to normal people, but of course nothing is without flaw.

How long before Mac's marketshare reaches a level where the argument about "not enough to bother writing viruses for" can finally be shot in the head for good? I think 10% is enough, but 20% would be even better.

[umbra43]

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[antiRepublicrat]

Sounds like a very complicated privilege elevation. Sadly, it’s happened on probably all multi-user operating systems. Likely only a true microkernel OS has a chance of being immune to this by design.

[Golden Eagle]

Thankfully this hack alone doesn't solely create an imminent danger for Mac users, but that doesn't mean this bozo doesn't deserve tons of criticism for sharing his info at a hackers conference instead of with the vendor first so users could be fully protected as soon as possible. Unfortunately this despicable practice known as “full disclosure” is actually celebrated by some, they're probably disappointed he didn't release working exploit code at the same time. Or did he? Probably did knowing these low lifes, it's thanks to scum like them our internet rights will eventually be eroded away.