> The company's move to Intel-based hardware for its next-generation

> of Macs also gives flaw finders familiar territory in which to look for bugs.

So, wait, what exactly does this story have to do with Intel Macs again? Did this "hack" exploit a weakness in the Intel architecture that Apple, in its arrooancy, neglected to fix? [/sarcasm]

Granted: We need to take security seriously on the Macintosh platform. But making the leap to "Intel pose a ginormous new threat to the Mac platform" -- in only three paragraphs, too -- when the story here is that a G4 PowerBook was "compromised" is just tabloid journalism.

Let's see some real investigating here. What information was actually taken from the PowerBook? Were there any programs sitting on the computer that could have been used to gather said data, or could the information have been lifted via packet-sniffing methods?

More facts, less spin please.

--rY.

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