On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
> <http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941>
>
> Why Safari? Why didn’t you go after IE or Safari?
>
> It’s really simple. Safari on the Mac is easier to exploit. The
> things that Windows do to make it harder (for an exploit to work),
> Macs don’t do. Hacking into Macs is so much easier. You don’t have to
> jump through hoops and deal with all the anti-exploit mitigations
> you’d find in Windows.
>
> It’s more about the operating system than the (target) program.
> Firefox on Mac is pretty easy too. The underlying OS doesn’t have
> anti-exploit stuff built into it.
Hmmm. You might want to read this before getting all smug.
http://radian.org/notebook/nils2own
-- Ed Leafe
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