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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: Did his POwerBook really get compromised? 2006-02-09
Anonymous
That was my original thought as well. Usually, the only way a hacker can gain access to the computer is to be using the same computer or allowed to install software.

In another thought, Apple using Intel chips might be great for selling more computers but like in the Windows world, users will ...

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