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Re: Mac Security
From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:25:57 -0800
Todd Towles wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4620548.stm Note - I am not a mac user.
I only read the follow-up article, the one you link here. I'm sorta a Mac user recently, I've been using OS 10.4 as a daily laptop for a couple of months now. Not loving it, mostly for functional reasons.
A few things I like to point out about the topics of malware on non-windows. OS X in this case, Linux to a lesser degree:
-There have been Mac viruses around for many years, what is the reporter smoking? -Using anything besides Windows at this point will keep you from being vulnerable to a large volume of attempts. Something approaching 95% of the attacks in the wild are aimed at Windows boxes. -From what I've seen of OS X vulnerability research, I'm seeing a lot of the kinds of bugs that other unixes were suffering from 5-10 years ago. I.e. Apple has some lessons to learn the hard way, still.
-There are always lots of local priv escalation vulns to be had -But malware doesn't need to be root to spread BB _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- Mac Security Todd Towles (Jan 18)
- RE: Mac Security Larry Seltzer (Jan 18)
- Re: Mac Security Blue Boar (Jan 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Mac Security Todd Towles (Jan 18)
- RE: Mac Security Larry Seltzer (Jan 18)
- RE: Mac Security Todd Towles (Jan 18)
- Re: Mac Security Dude VanWinkle (Jan 18)
- Re[2]: Mac Security Pierre Vandevenne (Jan 18)
- Re: Re[2]: Mac Security Dude VanWinkle (Jan 18)
- RE: Mac Security David Harley (Jan 19)
- Re: Mac Security Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 19)
- Re: Mac Security Dude VanWinkle (Jan 18)