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Leopard falls first!

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  • #2
    Breezer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭Breezer


    Old news. It's already been discussed to death in other threads. My take on this:

    1) It wasn't, strictly speaking, a hack. It was an exploit of a security vulnerability in Safari (as opposed to Leopard) that required user interaction (visiting a website pre-programmed to run the code to break into the system).

    2) It wasn't 2 minutes. The hacker had presumably been working on his code for some time prior to the competition.

    3) The Mac 'fell first' because it was targeted first. As well as getting to keep the MacBook Air and $5000, the hacker gains the prestige of being 'the one who hacked Leopard.' Hacking Windows isn't much of a claim to fame.

    4) Information regarding the security flaw will be passed on to Apple and presumably patched.

    Having said all that, the Mac was still broken into. Hopefully all this media attention will get Apple worried about potential sales loss and we'll see them churning out more regular security patches in the near future.


  • #3
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Agreed, imagine the shock and awe if I posted a thread in the Windows form:

    Shock ! Windows falls foul of hacker !!

    The silence would be deafening I'd imagine.

    As Breezer said :
    • It's old - probably patched - news.
    • It didn't take 2 minutes, it took 3 weeks and 2 minutes.
    • It wasn't Leopard that "fell" it was a weakness in Safari that was exploited, I know it wouldn't happen in Internet Explorer of course :rolleyes:

    Next . . . .

    ZEN


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