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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Re: I had no problems at Shmoocon 2006-02-08
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The security researcher in question maintains a fairly high profile, and thus may have been a bit more of an attractive target. I saw some details of the exploit, and found it quite clever.

OSX fan that I am, I know better than to believe that there is such a thing as a Totally Secure Machine, anywhere. Only when it's off the network, unplugged, powered-down, and locked in a box, is the damn thing 100% secure. At that point, it is also 100% useless.

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do we want security through obscurity? 2006-02-08
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