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Chris Olson wrote:<br>
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<div>On Mar 1, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Bill Fox wrote:</div>
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face="Helvetica" size="4">Maybe you could de-nastify it to do
something benign </font><font
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face="Helvetica" size="4">and let people try it rather than trying to
cow them with your nuclear threat.</font></p>
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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?
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<div>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.<br>
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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?<br>
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TIA,<br>
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Don<br>
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