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Gadi already made the point that the significance of this lies in professional malware authors taking notice of Apple. If this trojan was written for, say, NetBSD, or perhaps ReactOS, I know *my* reaction would be the same - 'wow, the malware authors are taking notice of a new platform!'. That *is* significant, and those who are chalking that reaction up to 'anti-Apple zealotry' are sorely mistaken.
There is a second point being made here, too - Apple isn't exactly known for writing bug-free code (I've already given some examples earlier in this thread), and they're not exactly known for fixing bugs until they're absolutely forced to. This is liable to create problems down the road - given that the malware authors are now starting to take notice of Macs, they'll undoubtedly try a few exploits before long. I just hope Apple has patched all known holes by then... :) On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:51:29PM -0800, Kyle Lutze babbled thus: > What makes me unhappy is that people are using an SE exploit as a > way to say here's proof that a mac is as insecure as a windows box > or gadi saying the itw barrier has been broken for apple (read above > about requirements for itw status). -- PinkFreud Chief of Security, Nightstar IRC network irc.nightstar.net | www.nightstar.net Server Administrator - Blargh.CA.US.Nightstar.Net Unsolicited advertisements sent to this address are NOT welcome.
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