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eWeek says "Apple's Switch to Intel Could Allow OS X Exploits"

From: arjones at simultan.dyndns.org (Andrew Rucker Jones)
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:04:10 +0100

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After all, didn't attackers also have access to powerpc systems to build 
attacks on during the same timeframe that Symantec suggests?  Does the 
powerpc architecture provide some inherent protection against (say) stack 
smashing than the x86 does?


I'm not a PowerPC expert, but everything i have read indicates that it
is not any more secure than the x86 architecture. No NX bit, for
example. I think the comments are based solely on the comparative
installed user base, as You observed.

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