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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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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
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Long on FUD, short on fact 2006-02-08
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Did his POwerBook really get compromised? 2006-02-08
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Re: Did his POwerBook really get compromised? 2006-02-09
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That was my original thought as well. Usually, the only way a hacker can gain access to the computer is to be using the same computer or allowed to install software.

In another thought, Apple using Intel chips might be great for selling more computers but like in the Windows world, users will have to cope with similar problems thus weakening the Apple image. Why would users really care about marketshare?

I'd rather have a slower chip than an Intel chip.

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