[iBook] Apple's ode to hackers

Ondra Soukup ondras at di.cz
Sat Feb 25 09:32:21 PST 2006


Put the song into iMovie and it'll convert into aiff - then go the  
the YourMovie.iMovie  bundle and viola - it's there....
On Feb 25, 2006, at 16:27 , Joel Esler wrote:

> 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
>>
>> --
>> 73 de Fred Stevens K2FRD, VO2FS
>> http://homepage.mac.com/k2frd/K2FRD.html
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