Re: Mac OS X hacked in under 30 minutes

[Robert Evans <robert.evans@dxrgroup.com>]

The issue is not so much that Apple makes the claim, but that Mac  
users have grown over-confident since there have been no hacks until  
recently.  I am a Mac user, and work in a Mac shop, and while I think  
the hack threat is serious, it has been very hard to convince my  
coworkers.  The typical response is something like,  "security  
experts have been saying it will come for years but never has so the  
threat must be pro-Windoze/anti-Mac hype".

I think that while Apple has not jumped on that band wagon directly,  
they HAVE allowed it to continue by saying nothing at all either  
way.  My fear, is that because of this attitude, when the day comes  
that a truly nasty hack gets found or virus created, that the Mac  
community will be devastated not because of the inability to harden  
and protect their systems, but because of the failure on the part of  
their users to take adequate precautions.  :-(

Robert


On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Richard H. Fifarek wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Koree A. Smith wrote:
>
>> Have they purported their OS to be unhackable?
>
> 	To some extent, yes, which is unfortunate because it gives users a  
> false sense of security (pun intended) and they tend to be less  
> diligent about patches, safe computing practices, etc.  There are  
> some known issues on OS X that remain unpatched:
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/ 
> Ancient_flaws_leave_OS_X_vulnerable_/0,2000061744,39234678,00.htm
>
>
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> Richard H. Fifarek
> rfifarek@fifarek.net
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