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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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Re: Apple's in the eye of flaw finders 2006-02-08
Rick
'Unix based' are the operative words here. NeXTSTEP was a GUI on top of Unix. Bring that clean architecture to Cupertino and what do you get?

Exactly: today it's 'Unix based' - it's NOT Unix. It's a lot of things - too many things all at once - but it's definitely NOT Unix....

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