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.

Re: Apple's in the eye of flaw finders 2006-02-09
Anonymous

You do realize that what you're saying means there's a local root exploit on the loose for OSX, right? one can't just say 'Open Sesame' and root gets enabled.

And once you have a local root exploit, a desktop system is a lot easier to compromise....

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