Linked by Bill Leeper on Tue 7th Feb 2006 23:55 UTC
"Assuming that 'because it's a Mac, it's safe' is no longer wise" is probably one of this book's most important themes. It has been my experience that too many Mac users "know" that OS X is secure and therefore they have nothing to worry about. This book shows just how wrong that attitude is.
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"They will point out a flaw or exploit and fail to mention that this flaw or exploit on a service needs to first be enabled.
The large majority (I'm not saying all, but most of them) are flaws/exploits that are on services that are disabled by default.
Either that or the exploit needs physical access to the machine."
Actually, the authors do a very nice job of pointing out these things. They even go so far as to point out vulnerabilities and then list versions of the programs that are effected and tell you where to get the updated version that has been patched. They do not try to scare you into a panic and most of the programs they talk about are freely downloadable open source programs.