In the Pwn2Own competition the the first attack breached the defenses of Mac OS X using a bug in the Safari browser and won £5000 as well as the MacBook Air that he compromised. hehehe
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/711
DaveN
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29th March 2008 @ 11:04
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The bug he exploited was actually a webkit bug… which is open source software (see http://webkit.org/). It was fixed in less than 24 hours, which I’m guessing is faster than it takes most windows vista computers to start up
Of course that is if your running windows vista on a pc as the fastest laptop to run windows vista in tests was actually a mac. So yeah, if you really want to run windows vista or xp as you’re worried about mac os not being secure compared to them (LOL!!), and you want it to work relatively quick, you still need a mac.31st March 2008 @ 10:02
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A good read, as an ex Mac OS X user and a current Ubuntu user, it’s good to see that the Ubuntu system wasn’t compromised
31st March 2008 @ 11:02
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You maybe should take into consideration that of all machines to hack in the competition, the Mac Book Air was by far the most attractive one … That might well have played its role. Oh, by the way, it’s not the OS that was hacked, but Safari, as you did mention, too. Your headline is grossly misleading!
Disclaimer: Written on a MBA … Gorgeous machine, honestly!
31st March 2008 @ 11:40
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I would love to move to Linux, but I reckon Ubuntu will get superceded by something better with hopefully a better sounding name. But lets face it, a with all these things, as soon as something gets popular they start getting hacked as it becomes worthwhile commercially. So the same could happen to Linux based OS eventually.
2nd April 2008 @ 11:40
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PS DaveN love the new look!
2nd April 2008 @ 11:40
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Hey, the mac is fine - not that I’m a fan of Steve Jobs - but lets face it no macuser uses safari anyway!