http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pwn2own-mac-hack,2254.html An interview with Charlie Miller winner of this and last years pwn2own contest. It may answer some of the questions asked here. Did he get root access? No...but he then explains why it hardly matters. Other topics are which is safer mac or windows? The conclusion is what has been said here before and is fairly obvious except to the mac glitterati, macs are safer by obscurity then by design.
http://www.osnews.com/story/21213/Miller_Macs_Less_Secure_But_Safer_than_Windows_Machines That's a shorter version of the actual interview. On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]>wrote: > > So we don't really know if the crack is significant > > or not. Or if the person quoted above is being overly > > dramatic in his estimation of the ease of cracking > > Mac OS X. > > Roger, I don't disagree with anything you said, except for that last > sentence: since hacking appears to be the guy's raison d'etre, and since he > has hacked both Windows and Mac systems, I don't think we can really call > it > "estimation". I wouldn't quibble if that were rephrased as, "Or if the > person quoted above is being overly dramatic about how easy it is to crack > OS X." > > It's just the word "estimation", really. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
