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"The Macintosh machine, on the other hand, was assaulted as often as the Windows XP SP1 box, but never was grabbed by a hacker, thanks to the tunnel vision that attackers have for Windows. "The automated bot/worm attackers were exclusively using Windows-based attacks," said Colombano, so Mac and Linux machines are safe. For now. "[But] it would have been very vulnerable had code been written to compromise its system," he added."

First of all Mac OS 10.x comes with a firewall that blocks a number of the ports by default. I have no idea how they turned it off. The rest is just silly conjecture. There is no way of knowing what would happen if they intentionally tried to target the Mac operating system. There is no way of knowing from this article how easy it would be to code exploits for the mac.

Of course it could be done but the degree of vulnerability doesn't increase just because it hasn't been tried.

There is no way of knowing what would happen if they intentionally tried to target the Mac operating system.

Interfaces are what they are. If they were left wide open on the Mac, you'd have the same result as with the Pee Cee or any other platform. There are no code mysteries left in the universe and there haven't been since they invented the computer.