Comments on: MacBook Air slain first in hacking competition: OS X not OS god

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:30:52 +0000

@ Arnaldo Capó
You clearly dont quiet understand the concept of hacking, its very easy to get someone on a website, it could be set up to do so on pretty much any website, even google or something.

This is not the only security fault in macs, OS X is pretty much rellying on them being the underdog and no one bothering to make viruses or hack them, if mac was as big as windows, it would have as many security problems.

By: Arnaldo Capó

Arnaldo Capó — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:58:38 +0000

HMM?? Safari != OS X. Fix the story and the headline. If someone has to go to a website to get hacked, well that’s not a very efficient way of hacking. Again Safari exploit is not equal to Mac OS X is just a browser

By: RetroGen

RetroGen — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:06:23 +0000

And there we go defending a steaming pile of … But yeah, hole is a hole. I used mac long time cause of mi work, now I’ve changed back to windows, simply cause I like it more than mac. Mac ain’t that bad, but I hate it’s community, you’re more arrogant and elitist than I could ever dream being :)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:02:20 +0000

You mentioned he hacked into it using SAFARI. This is an application that runs on Mac, it is not OS/X.
Since everyone I know on the mac uses Firefox, then they don’t even come close to having a problem.
Safari has a few problems, for sure. In fact it was used to hack into the iPhone at one point – the iPhone version also had an exploit which could be triggered by visiting a specific web site (which contained a special graphic file which crashed Safari and allowed system code to be executed).

Also, the best measure of a company’s security team is the response time from knowing a vulnerability exists to releasing a user-downloadable patch. If a company has holes yet very quickly (such as, within a week) releases a software update to plug the hole, that indicates good support. Holes will always exist in Operating systems and applications. The speed at which the issues are addressed is the important aspect of computing.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:39:36 +0000

thankyou for this report, I’m a pretty big fan of Apple and the OS X OS, however I’m also a professional in the Windows Network world and a realist. Maybe this info will encourage Apple to put more effort into making OS X and it’ associated applications stronger and more secue while balancing that fine line of user friendlyness.

Note: this post was written on an iPhone while sitting in front of Wal-Mart.