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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: Re: I had no problems at Shmoocon 2006-02-08
Anonymous
I think the point is that the story in the *article* is anecdotal. There's no details, no names, no description. While it's certainly necessary to discuss security problems in a scientific manner, the article above doesn't, and smells of a hidden agenda. That's why it's important to disclose full de...

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