Most reasont thing google gives me is a exploit in i cal, dated 22/05/08. On 25/05/2009, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote: > Hey Josh, thanks for the note! Yes; I completely agree. > > I'm betting Jude has some very good sources, so am looking forward > to those links when he posts. > > this sort of thing is obviously very important to the Mac community > as you've said… > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > --- > Follow me on Twitter! > > https://twitter.com/ModelCara > > View my Online Portfolio at: > http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > On May 24, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: > > > No computer is completely invulnerable to attacks. The Mac OS is far > safer than Windows. Saying that your best bet is to take a machine > offline to protect it is like saying that you're not going to drive > your car until accidents are eliminated. It's frankly ridiculous. > > I haven't read anything on any news sources, Mac or otherwise, that > any hackers are targeting Macs specifically. There were a couple of > Trojans earlier in the year if you downloaded and installed pirated > copies of iWork or Adobe CS4, and frankly if you're pirating software, > you deserve whatever's coming to you. You break the law, you take your > chances. > > More recently, there was notification from a security firm about a > vulnerability in Java, which can potentially be exploited on Macs, > (and other systems that run Java applets on the web), but again, this > is a known problem with no known malicious uses in the wild. > > Is it possible that you're just trying to get a rise out of us? Sure > looks that way. Links to where you are getting this, almost certainly > erroneous, information would be interesting. > > You can bet, just like the trojans and Java flaws, such a story would > be all over the Mac news sites. I see not a one. > > Josh de Lioncourt > …my other mail provider is an owl… > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lioncourt > Music: http://stage19music.com > Mac-cessibility: http://www.Lioncourt.com > Blog: http://lioncourtsmusings.blogspot.com > GoodReads: http://goodreads.com/Lioncourt > > On May 24, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> >> Take it off line and keep it in a closet until snow leopard has been >> released and then if I have enough money buy snow leopard and >> install it. >> Why? Because the hacker community is specifically targeting leopard >> exploiting two critical vulnerabilities that are widely embedded in >> Leopard and it will take Apple until at least June 2010 to write fixes >> necessary to remove these vulnerabilities. If no more get created >> and no >> more get discovered by the malware folks between now and then, we >> may have >> a "secure" operating system to buy at that time. Strange how such a >> short >> word like if is so important. >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > >
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