On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:21:55 AM UTC+1, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
>
> Someone coming up with another Mac OS virus will probably be hardly worth a 
> 140 character mention on Twitter. And by the way, the latest to date is from 
> yesterday<http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-01.html>(Adobe,
>  of course).
>

That's a theoretical hack. Even an existing software thing. But did it 
impact thousands to hundreds of thousands of people as a worm was actively 
spread through the internet to take advantage of these problems and i.e. 
create a big botnet of macs, or encrypt people's disks and then ransom their 
data, or just download horse porn, or whatever windows worms have been up 
to?

That's what I was referring to. Something that makes a bit of a splash. If 
this cannot be done because Apple would somehow manage to make macs update 
in time (i.e. before the worm hits critical mass), then Steve Jobs is 
effectively right.

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