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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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Apple's in the eye of flaw finders 2006-02-07
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Jay Beale (1 replies)
The other component of increased risk from moving OS X to Intel x86 is that so many people have spare x86 machines that they can do security research with. Between the stronger utility of an x86 Apple and the well-documented ability of people to get OS X running on non-Apple hardware, there are going to be a lot more exploit writers who have access to the platform. That should definitely increase the number of people trying to do #1, #2 and #3.

- Jay Beale

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I had no problems at Shmoocon 2006-02-08
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