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Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security
From: "Dave Korn" <davek_throwaway () hotmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 20:21:17 -0000
Stef wrote:
On 2/28/06, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote: <snip>Still, the ignorance of Mac users, who believe their platform is somehow magically "secure" will contribute to the problem.
I am sorry, Paul, but I have to take you up on this, especially with your tendency of generalizing everything. original migration. As a repository of security and network tools, I have thrown at this baby everything I can possible think of, and still haven't found a way to break it ...
Never mistake a lack of imagination for an insight into necessity. I guess you didn't think of writing a virus, renaming it to "funny_game.exe", and emailing it to yourself with an email body saying "Hi! Here's that flash game we were chatting about the other day!" ? The point I'm making is that the vast majority of windows virus infections aren't delivered by remote network exploit, they're delivered by people double-clicking on executables attached to email, and that would work on Macs just as it does on windows. There's nothing about the Mac that would make Mac users less vulnerable to social engineering than windows users, and as long as the attitude persists that Macs are somehow special and secure, then uneducated Mac users will be even /more/ likely to open an executable attachment, because they won't believe it can harm them, because they've been told over and over how their Mac is "secure" and all those viruses are only a problem on windows. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security Dave Korn (Mar 01)
- Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security mz4ph0d (Mar 01)
- Re: Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security Paul Schmehl (Mar 01)
- Re: Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security mz4ph0d (Mar 01)
- Re: Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security Paul Schmehl (Mar 01)
- Re: Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security Dave Korn (Mar 02)
- Re: Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security Paul Schmehl (Mar 01)
- Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security mz4ph0d (Mar 01)