OS X: 'Easiest to break'

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9072959

Rather interesting, I think. Yes, I dislike Mac OS X and enjoy debating about operating systems. This will be a good start for another healthy intelligent debate, keep it flameless though.

 

.....Your kidding me right? I thought they where hardcore....

I regret buying mine =.=

 

Haha wow. It took him under three minute's thats crazy. Shows it would take a decent hacker maybe a few hour's. That is certainly NOT good for mac users.

 

He was paid to do it, he took part in a competition that made him try... You won't be seeing exploits like that coming out any time soon. Not to mention, he's not even legally allowed to release it.

 

HaHa, and THATS why i've always stayed with windows

 

You best be trolling!

 

Haha, windows owns ya !

 

can you saw.. owned?

 

Hell yeah ^_^

 

For every exploit on Mac, there's a million more on Windows.

Regardless, as cp said, this can't be released. It's still an excellent operating system, and there are likely to be security updates.

 

i saw this on the news quite some time ago..its pretty funny actually.

 

I find this interesting as well, although when it comes to hacking, windows is the #1 target.

 

vancouver and their hacking, thats why they brought out the alpha shield.

 

Windows has been mainstream for much longer though and is still the most widely used Operating System. Plenty more effort goes into exploiting it than any others which at least partly justifies for so many problems being found.

 

Just to let you know, there is a better percentage that windows computers brake more often. Its just a fact. There is security updates with the mac all of the time.

 

theoreticly the percentage of mac users against windows users is tiny this meaning that for every one hacker on mac there will be hundreds for windows... agreed?

 

You may want to rethink that old axiom: according to this article, such opinions are not accurate. Though as you can see by the thumbs up/down comparison on the article, *nix fanboys cannot tolerate that.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say because of the grammatical errors, however, I'll assume that you meant that more PCs are affected by viruses, trojans and exploits than Macs. That's obvious, when an overwhelming majority of homes and businesses use PCs. However, as the article I linked to above suggests, Apple appears to be facing a real trial by fire right now.

And despite this, OS X is still the easiest to break according to the security researcher who chose to exploit Mac OS X rather than Ubuntu or Vista because he wanted an easier time with it.

 

"Security researcher Charlie Miller exploited Safari in two minutes"

woop de do

 

yes i can say it. owned