<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Mar 2, 2006, at 12:36 AM, Lists wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">But if that's the way he wants to play, then that's what he'll do.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Meanwhile I'll do the things that I believe safeguard me, including running regular backups.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Thank you Mr. Lists.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>George Ou, the ultimate Windows fanboy over at ZDNet, likes to point this out all the time:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=165">http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=165</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>George is right about one thing; they just haven't gotten exploited on the Mac. The types of vulnerabilities that affect the Mac (buffer overflows, privilege escalation, etc.), are the serious kind where one day you'll find your machine with the Opener rootkit installed in it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mac OS X is comprised of many open source components like Apache, PHP, tnftpd, etc.. If you look at the open source camps (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) where these open source components are developed you'll see that FreeBSD, for instance, patches vulnerabilities in PHP sometimes SIX MONTHS before Apple rolls a patch into one big Security Update. Security Update 2006-001 fixed 20 different security holes in Mac OS X. Some of them have existed for MONTHS that were patched in Linux and BSD systems long ago.</DIV><DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chris</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PGP Key: <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/">http://astcomm.net/~chris/PGP_Public_Key/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>