Apple's in the eye of flaw finders

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.

Long on FUD, short on fact 2006-02-08
Marty

I'm not saying a security exploit on Mac OS X will never be found, however, this article has no details about how the computer was "locked down" nor how the exploit may have happened (since the investigation turned up no evidence). The so-called researcher *guesses* that it may be an unknown exploit...

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