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EastTexas
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« on: March 19, 2009, 11:58:14 PM »

Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5K
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EastTexas
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« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2009, 11:58:33 PM »

More on how it was done
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941

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.

This is sad folks  8(
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Thanks DB


« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2009, 11:35:34 AM »

The best security is one's use of common  sense when computing , but even that don't always work.
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« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2009, 06:15:10 PM »

Security through obscurity.
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