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To: Disturbin

Lousy? Hm. Please name one exploit of OS X that has been found in the wild.


8 posted on 06/13/2007 2:14:46 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr
Maybe you missed this:

I can't speak for anybody else, but the bugs found in the beta copy of Safari on Windows work on the production copy on OS X as well," he said in a posting on the Errata site. "The exploit is robust mostly thanks to the lack of any kind of advanced security features in [Mac] OS X."

9 posted on 06/13/2007 2:22:31 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: Spktyr

As a computer security professional I just have to chuckle about all the Mac user claims of security. The fact is there is not one single computer anywhere this isn’t vulnerable to exploitation. One of the main reasons there is so much focus on Microsoft products is the fact that they are so prevalent. If someone is in the business of exploiting machines, the best platform to concentrate on is obviously MS products just because of the shear numbers. If the numbers were reversed, I’m sure that Macs would be victimized just as easily. If any of you Mac users think you are invincible, you obviously haven’t seen the number of exploits available to hackers\malicious software for the Mac platform.


15 posted on 06/13/2007 3:21:39 PM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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