[Ti] Intel Mac Mini?

[Don]

Chris Olson wrote:

> On Mar 1, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Bill Fox wrote:
>
>> Maybe you could de-nastify it to do something benign and let people 
>> try it rather than trying to cow them with your nuclear threat.
>>
>
> Maybe I could.  But I won't.  All the demos on the web from the 
> so-called security experts did something benign.  Apple was able to 
> patch that.  However, I ask you to consider the difference between 
> real world and benign demos - if a real hacker decides to compromise 
> your machine, do you suppose he'll do something benign?
>
> I don't have, nor ever said anything about a nuclear threat.  I said 
> Mac OS X has a security problem, and Apple still hasn't fixed it.
> -- 
> Chris
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I have been following this thread and must admit I don't understand most 
of it. As a total non-geek who uses the computer mainly for web surfing, 
emailing, iTunes/ITMS, MS Office and occasionally Filemaker, can someone 
tell me how I could be hurt by the OS X security leaks?

TIA,

Don
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