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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: Re: Apple's in the eye of flaw finders 2006-02-09
Anonymous
I would focus on the ball pitched. The x86 PowerBook does not exist. So if this happened it happened on a G4 or G3 running OSX if this PowerBook had OSX installed.

The story is vague enough that we could assume lots of facts not yet in evidence. So far we have a story about an unattended Powe...

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