>You need to reread the facts. >http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/25/qthack/index.php
1) This was not a hack of the Mac OS. This was a hack of QuickTime. The same method of attack works on both Macs and PCs, thus demonstrating further that this is not a hack of the Mac OS. It is a hack of QuickTime. 2) That is what making the contest simpler means. Nobody was able to hack the Mac OS. They changed the rules to allow a hack of an application runing on the Mac. There are probably other applications that can be hacked too. 3) This was a demonstration of a problem. No malware took advantage of the defect and the defect has already been corrected. That is a very different situation from an operating system that has many malware exploits in the wild. Sloppy thinking or reality distortion? I don't know which. I do know that I prefer accuracy. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
