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[4]: Comment by sadyc
by aliquis on Sat 21st Mar 2009 11:16 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Comment by sadyc"
aliquis
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The real kicker, according to the same post, was the the bug Miller exploited has already been found and fixed upstream, but Apple is using an old version of that library that still has the bug.
And this is yet another clue for the retards who claim OS X is so f--king secure, why on earth do they put a bunch of security fixes in "Security fix q1 2009" for instance? If they was serious about fixing the issues they would update/patch the issue immediately and release an update, but they don't. So you have plenty of unpatched stuff until they decide to release their big patch.

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