Apple's in the eye of flaw finders

Apple's in the eye of flaw finders
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-02-07

At the recent ShmooCon hacking conference, one security researcher found out the hard way that such venues can be hostile, when an unknown hacker took control of the researcher's computer, disabling the firewall and starting up a file server.

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Don't be foolish 2006-02-08
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I had no problems at Shmoocon 2006-02-08
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move along 2006-02-09
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do we want security through obscurity? 2006-02-08
assurbanipal (1 replies)

Everybody argues that security through obscurity doesn't provide additional protection. Yet this article seems to point to the contrary, i.e. the shift to a better known platform will "prove" dangerous because more people know how to fiddle with it. This is probably what happens, but reflects market situations rather than intrinsic robustness of platform/code.

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Hired Gun 2006-02-08
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Long on FUD, short on fact 2006-02-08
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Forensices did not reveal any clues? 2006-02-08
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Ragnarok/Apocalypse is possible for Mac users - wake up. 2006-02-08
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"Intel", new fuel for the FUD 2006-02-08
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Did his POwerBook really get compromised? 2006-02-08
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