On 2009-12-25 12:56 , John Francis wrote:
Then their attitude of smug superiority is going to bite them someday.
(And serve them right, too, if you ask me).
don't lump all Mac users together please!
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:59:08AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote:
Again: The privacy-invasion and tracking tricks used in
HTML/Javascript email work on ALL operating systems.
At present Windows is the #1 target because it's widespread, and
the O/S most often found in the hands of naive users. After that
come the "social engineering" scams (phishing, etc.). But there
are several exploits aimed at Unix and derivatives going around,
quite apart from the O/S-independent attacks mentioned above.
I've personally encountered a Linux-based attack (at one of the
sites I use for hosting), valthough that's probably a softer
target than OS/X because the source code is widely available.
first, as Mark tried to clarify, this thread has been delving into
privacy and tracking issues in email, not general security vulnerabilities
but as to your comment, it can seem counter-intuitive, but open source
doesn't typically correlate with security problems ... and fyi much of
Mac OS X _is_ open source, and of course many Mac users also run open
source applications
while being tracked via email is undesirable to many, a more insidious
cross-platform threat is the prevalence of websites that are vulnerable
to cross-site-scripting, SQL injection and similar attacks
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