Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Mar 2009 13:51 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
Privacy, Security, Encryption Fresh from winning the PWN2OWN contest yesterday, Charlie Miller has been interviewed by ZDNet. He talks about how Mac OS X is a very simple operating system to exploit due to the lack of any form of anti-exploit features. He also explains that the underlying operating system is much more important in creating a successful exploit than the bowser, why Chrome is so hard to hack, and many other things.
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RE[2]: Operating System Security
by rajj on Fri 20th Mar 2009 17:22 UTC in reply to "RE: Operating System Security"
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The BSD's, and OpenBSD in particular, have had very few remotely exploitable bugs in a default install. IIRC, OpenBSD has only had two in over ten years now.

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