[iBook] Apple's ode to hackers

[Joel Esler]

Fred, you are are correct.  Just because the processor has changed
from bigendian to littleendian (PPC to x86) processing makes
absolutely no difference in the exploit.  The fact is that the
underlying os in mac is BSD based.  BSD has been proven again and
again to be the most secure os ever.

Mac OS is just as secure as it ever was.  User Permissions and everything...

On 2/24/06, Fred Stevens K2FRD <k2frd at mac.com> wrote:
> Not bad - limericks are poets' answers to unemployment and realists' statements of the absurd.
>
> More seriously, it's my understanding that simply because Apple has switched to Intel processors, it does not make them more susceptible to Windows-type malware such as viruses (and all their incarnations), spyware, hackers, keystroke recorders, adware, etc. Is this not true? After all, a Mac OS is still a Mac OS; the hardware may have changed somewhat, but the software is still the solid, faithful, and superior material we have all grown to intimately know and passionately love. It would seem to me that the current "epidemic" (yeah, right, maybe all of three) of viruses is simply because all the media hype over Apple's switch to Intel has raised awareness levels and activities in those ego-deprived, socially misfit, character-deficient, and probably erectilely dysfunctional persons who would write such malware.
>
> Fred
>
> At 7:54 -0600 24/02/2006, Tom Legare wrote:
> >You've got to like Apple's sense of humor.  It looks like the hackers are already trying to tear apart OS X running on the Intel Duo Core machines Apple has released.
> >
> ><http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/02/17/apple.hacker.poem.ap/index.html>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/02/17/apple.hacker.poem.ap/index.html
> >
> >Tom
>
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