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Hmmm... Java huh?
From what I read, it involves Java. Same as yesterday's zero day flaw. Apple
doesn't write Java. So can Macs be hacked using someone elses software as a way
in? SURE! Can Macs be hacked using Apple's own software? SURE! So what?

EVERYTHING
CAN
BE
HACKED

The question is, how easily and how often and how much access do you get when
you get there? If the Mac haters want to dance wildly around their tribal fires every
time someone figures out a way to compromise some bit of software that lets
them run "arbitrary code" then I am not going to rain on their sacrificial fires.
Wake me up when someone gets root shell and changes something important.
Posted by: slylabs13   Posted on: 04/25/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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"Macs are vulnerable by default" - what a great headline  A.Typical Zork | 04/24/07
Yeah, what a load of trash. I've used a Mac since 1986  labarker | 04/25/07
Well, that puts a lot of people at ease  markdean | 04/25/07
i think his point was...  jjarman | 04/25/07
Point is:  MacGeek2121 | 04/25/07
Apple a small enough target?  rgathercoal@... | 05/04/07
No fanboys here to dispute the story.  mustangj36@... | 04/24/07
whenever there is fault to be placed...  linuxoverwindows | 04/25/07
Blame Java!  MacGeek2121 | 04/25/07
Where's the followup  Freebird54 | 04/25/07
Hmmm... Java huh?  slylabs13 | 04/25/07
?????????  rkuhn040172@... | 04/25/07
Zombe Windows Systems  lightandshadow | 04/25/07
Interesting  Boot_Agnostic | 04/25/07
Not Root Access  lightandshadow | 04/25/07
wow...so many fluff stories on this one sideshow  jjarman | 04/25/07
/agree  fuzzy2k | 04/25/07
Both Macs and Windows Systems are Vulnerable  Cardhu | 04/25/07
At least they can't get at MY DOG,  Feldwebel Wolfenstool | 04/25/07
OK thats 21 for Apple, and 650 fo Windows.....  rbert16000 | 04/25/07
As they said, that's 21 you know about  Heatlesssun1 | 04/25/07
Now to count the amount of smack talked  GekiritZ | 04/25/07
Zealotry and Name-Calling  Cardhu | 04/29/07
Again, the 2% solution  jc williams | 04/25/07
Not an opinion, a question  bathswife | 04/25/07
legitimate hacking  chickenbob2002 | 04/25/07
It's done by "honest" hackers.  JoeBob_z | 04/27/07
Mac hack  josjoslyn | 04/25/07
Get your facts in line  Doug_Alder | 04/25/07
About time the SMUG Mac Users got some come-uppance  Jeff Hayes | 04/25/07
No smugness  ehwood | 04/25/07
I Must Be Missing Something Here...  kbuscho | 04/25/07
You just sunk your own boat  Media Whore | 04/26/07
You Sunk Your Own Boat??  combrink | 04/26/07
Track record speaks for itself  lightandshadow | 04/26/07
Why do you uncritically repeat BS propaganda  JoeBob_z | 04/27/07
Apple User since 1986  dks_z | 04/29/07
PC User since 1986  thumpz99 | 05/01/07

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