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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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I had no problems at Shmoocon 2006-02-08
Anonymous
I attended Shmoocon, with a Powerbook. I did not make an extreme efforts to protect my box, although my normal routine includes running a firewall, keeping software up-to-date, requiring a password, and not leaving my computer out of my sight. I did not run into any problems from the event.

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