At 8:21 PM +0000 1/3/06, Dave Korn wrote:
make Mac users less vulnerable to social engineering than windows users, and as long as the attitude persists that Macs are somehow special and secure, then uneducated Mac users will be even /more/ likely to open an executable attachment, because they won't believe it can harm them, because they've been told over and over how their Mac is "secure" and all those viruses are only a problem on windows.
Sorry to spoil everyone's fun. <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382> Maybe, just maybe, Apple are actually better (able/positioned) to respond quickly to vulnerabilities before the exploits in-the-wild affect more than 50 people? Who knows. Z. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/