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Spreading security awareness for OS X
Robert Lemos, 2006-02-27

Robert Lemos interviews Kevin Finisterre, founder of security startup Digital Munition, who created the three recent versions of the InqTana worm to raise awareness of security in Apple's OS X. Finisterre discusses his reasons for creating the worms, the problems with Mac OS X security, and why he does not fear prosecution.

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Spreading security awareness for OS X 2006-03-03
Anonymous
lol Okay. The guy makes basically a rootkit and everyone calls it a virus or worm.

First of all, for this to get executed, it would require significant assistance from the end user.

Second of all, the writer states that worms in the future would be able to get installed without prompts. Can ...

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