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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: do we want security through obscurity? 2006-02-08
Penguinisto
Maybe, maybe not... I suspect that, unless more than one incident of this occurs, it could well have been someone peeking over the guy's shoulder while he logged into the laptop at a keynote.

As beautiful as paranoia can be to someone who secures things for a living, it must also stand to chance ...

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