On Feb 10, 2006, at 7:20 AM, VICTORIA.DUGGAN wrote:
I Think that what has happened is he has remote desktop activated
and one of his friends has logged on as him from another mac.
What a hack that was! Are they prepared to give any evidence that
it has actually happened or is it all just word of mouth, also i
thought all the unix flaws had been sorted for X
most of them. Anything known before OS X has been fixed, certainly,
they'd have had to be incredibly negligent to not include the latest
versions of things.
Various exploits are found all the time. Some folks get really
exercised over Apple's refusal to talk about these things; that's an
issue of corporate culture, Apple's become a VERY tight ship under
Jobs II.
There's a lot of ego, pre-conceived notions and BS in the systems
security world.
Here's a good comparison of Windows versus Linux <http://
www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/> For
the most part OS X can be substituted for Linux in this article.
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