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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 2006-02-08
Anonymous
Whilst this is an excellent article with a large number of valid (if not new points) I wonder if there is good reason to use the reaserchers powerbook as an example of a flaw in this case. Since the powerbook was "locked down" and since there are no obvious answers as to how the laptop was hacked i...

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