I'm not saying a security exploit on Mac OS X will never be found, however, this article has no details about how the computer was "locked down" nor how the exploit may have happened (since the investigation turned up no evidence). The so-called researcher *guesses* that it may be an unknown exploit -- an hypothesis for which he has no evidence.

Another poster writes:

"Lets also remember that OS X inherits many security problems from FreeBSD sheerly by design."

Such as? What flaws (inherited from FreeBSD) represent an impending security threat in your view? You throw out a generalize statement like that as if it were fact, but give no examples to back up your premise.

"Apple's Unix implementation is nothing more than a kludge on its best day. "

Do you have *any* facts to back your opinions up? How is it a "kludge"? What flaws do you believe it has that need immediate attention? What differentiates Apple's implimentation for other Unix variants?

Your comment is much like the article -- lots of FUD, few supporting facts.

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