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Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:26:16 +0800
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004, Michel Py wrote:
- In exchange for his life, appoint Saddam Hussein to rid us of spyware writers. As he's on a roll, let's put spammers in the deal, too. The guy has a proven track record, problem is most of us live in a society that oppose his methods, so this does not fly.
Can we call Godwin out on this comment? Guys, girls, etc. This whole "MacOS is based on BSD which has been looked at for years" discussion is actaully quite silly. Why? Because the majority of the code in MacOS X which would be abused is not going to be BSD based. A bug in cat? tar? sed? No. It'll be a bug in Mail.app, how it ties into the Helper app, possibly Finder.app and Applescript. It'll be some image overflow in Safari, via Khtml and Aqua's rendering engine. It'll be something that Is Very Not Going To Ever Have Been A Part of What You Call BSD. So, I call crapola on that argument, and invoke a Godwin-for-21st-century based on the above comment. Lets move on. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd I'm only a fanboy if <adrian () creative net au> I emailed Wesley Crusher.
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