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Re: This guy cracks me up.
From: "Jamie Riden" <jamesr () europe com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:09:07 +1200
On 05/09/06, Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Do I understand this correctly to mean that: If OS X security is worse than Microsoft, but we still don't see OS X people getting hacked, then the only possible explanation is that only the majority OS gets hacked? If I did a reasonably good translation, then my comment would be that perhaps it's because OS X users are so horribly bad at security that they never notice when they get hacked? This can be compounded by hackers not doing obvious things like stealing money from their OS X targets or putting up pop-ups, etc. Likewise, I think it would be affected by OS X being rarely used in a corporate environment, and hence not protected by the typical corporate IT trappings.
Some numbers from a 2 and a half year stint at a local university: OS X : no compromises observed, none reported Linux: 4 (all SSH password guesses) Windows: let's just say 'many'. Two to three orders of magnitude more across the whole campus. Now, I'm not going to draw any conclusions as the Linux machines compromised all had inbound SSH access, where as OS X machines were typically desktops. I'll just say the OS X people gave me less headaches than anyone else - for whatever reason(s). cheers, Jamie (confirmed Linux user) -- Jamie Riden / jamesr () europe com / jamie.riden () gmail com NZ Honeynet project - http://www.nz-honeynet.org/ _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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