Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Mar 2009 13:51 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
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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The problem is that browsers in concert with javascript basically allow arbitrary code execution on your machine by potentially anyone on the planet. Call me skeptical, but making such a thing secure _and_ convenient at the same time seems like an intractable problem, and no amount of indirection is going to change that.