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Bzzzt. Wrong.
As anybody who's ever owned any of the popular 'Hacker's Handbook' CDs (widely available on your local IT underground) can attest to, there are easily half as many Mac exploits on the CD as Windows exploits. Yet, the successful Windows cracks outnumber their Mac brethren by something like 10,000 to 1.

The difference? The Mac holes are closed much more quickly than the Windows versions and the folks trying to crack the Mac have to contend with lesser feats due to the more secure nature of the Mac os.

Tell ya, there's nothin' like ActiveX, Windows RPC and exe2html to make a cracker happy.

http://www.nsclean.com/psc-exe2.html
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