Re: a spam question

Towse goes:

serenebabe wrote:
On 2008-04-04 15:21:53 -0400, boots <no@xxxxx> said:

That depends on how hacker-friendly the software on your computer is.
Outlook Express seems to be one of the most hacker-friendly pieces of
junk available on the market today.

Oh, no, I'm on a mac, baby.

"Mac easiest to hack says $10,000 winner: Security researcher Charlie
Miller exploited Safari in two minutes"

By Gregg Keizer

<http://peek.snipurl.com/23if2>

"March 28, 2008 (Computerworld) The security researcher who walked away
with $10,000 yesterday by hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes
said he chose to attack Apple Inc.'s operating system for one simple reason.

"It was the easiest one of the three," said Charlie Miller, an analyst
at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a Baltimore-based security
consultancy. "We wanted to spend as little time as possible coming up
with an exploit, so we picked Mac OS X."

Stands to reason. H/Crackers don't avoid Macs because they're secure.
They avoid them because they don't deliver big box office. Hit Windows
and you hit more people. WGAF if some graphic designers are crippled
for a day?

I imagine this leads Apple to be complacent, slack about security in a
sort of "never happen to me" way. Thus making them easy to hit. And
the seasons they go round and round etc.


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