Re: Mac Security

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

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


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