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MacBook Air Hacked through Safari
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Myopic, IMO.
The issue is that Safari has an undisclosed vulnerability that allows a Mac to be hacked in under two minutes.
The only thing to be said about the hacker choosing to PWN the MBA over other Macs is that he has good taste. He knows he gets to take home whatever computer he hacks, so why WOULDN'T he chose a MBA instead of a MB/MBP?
If your point for starting this thread was to show that even hackers want to own a MBA, I apologize for having missed that.
If he had tried to hack a MBP using the same procedure he probably would have done it in two minutes too.
The only reason why people give importance to this is because it happened on an MBA, and people just wanna find errors on it to say **** (all those jealous people that cant have one
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The only reason why people give importance to this is because it happened on an MBA, and people just wanna find errors on it to say **** (all those jealous people that cant have one
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to get this right: somebody has to steal my mac, connect it via cable to a mac and then they get to control my mac?
how is this a security risk for the average user? i mean as soon as i get physical access to a mac i can simply read the data on the hd anyway. and if the data was encrypted (as it should be) then there is no harm (to the data). so what's the point? what am i missing aside of $10 000 and a MBA
how is this a security risk for the average user? i mean as soon as i get physical access to a mac i can simply read the data on the hd anyway. and if the data was encrypted (as it should be) then there is no harm (to the data). so what's the point? what am i missing aside of $10 000 and a MBA
to get this right: somebody has to steal my mac, connect it via cable to a mac and then they get to control my mac?
how is this a security risk for the average user? i mean as soon as i get physical access to a mac i can simply read the data on the hd anyway. and if the data was encrypted (as it should be) then there is no harm (to the data). so what's the point? what am i missing aside of $10 000 and a MBA
Exactly, it's a crazy concept but there is no real world danger for the average user...
Didn't sound like he needed physical access at all, other than to have the "user" surf on over to his website.
No, this should be in the proper forum (if it doesn't just turn into a flame war, which is my bet) and it isn't - the hardware wasn't cracked, the OS was.
Not to mention cracked with just about as close to direct access as you can get without touching the machine. Silly news story with no journalistic or, really, any other kind of potential. They could prepare a crack for it before hand, too, so the time frame given is a bit deceptive as well.
This is just something that's going to start another "Ooh, what are you gonna do now mac fantards that your hardware/software/life/lack of life/family/purpose in life is ****." vs. "You're such a retard, anti-mac fantard for x, y, and z stupid reason." Nip it in the bud.
Urban Dictionary is your friend
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=PWNEDDoh! aristobat beat me too it
Meh, Urban Dictionary's 124 definitions are a lot more um .. colorful?? than Wikipedia's.Urban Dictionary is your friend
Doh! aristobat beat me too it
Maybe Jobs will get his finger out of his ass and realize that Mac OS is just as vulnerable as any other operating system. Believing anything else is sheer ignorance.
Steve knew all about the vulnerabilities and flaws in the Mac OS. That's why he stuck it in a coffin and repackaged NeXTSTEP under the trendy marketing name Mac OS X.
There were 3 laptops, VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10 ,Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1, MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2. It's a OSX exploit that would have happened regardless of what Mac was there. It belongs in the OSX section.
You don't, you just need to click a malicious link.
to get this right: somebody has to steal my mac, connect it via cable to a mac and then they get to control my mac?
how is this a security risk for the average user? i mean as soon as i get physical access to a mac i can simply read the data on the hd anyway. and if the data was encrypted (as it should be) then there is no harm (to the data). so what's the point? what am i missing aside of $10 000 and a MBA
you missed about everything, re-read the article please.
The rules of the contest are here, and the Mac lost fair and square. The most damning thing is that the other teams kept attacking the Vista and Ubuntu machines the rest of the day (from which they could still win the cash prize, as it's one prize per machine, not one total), but both survived the entire day.
No need to invent alternative theories to defend Apple's honor here. Safari f*cked up and there is no shame in admitting that. It isn't the first time, and probably won't be the last time either.
No need to invent alternative theories to defend Apple's honor here. Safari f*cked up and there is no shame in admitting that. It isn't the first time, and probably won't be the last time either.
And here I (after switching from Windows a year ago) was just starting to believe that my Mac is secure without having virus protection.
Virus Protection won't do anything to prevent this. Virus protection protects from... viruses.
BOO safari. First it tries to sneak through the automatic update on my windows machine, then it lets in malicious code on my mac machine.
GOOOOOO Fire Fox!
Its always either Safari or Quicktime. At least Apple is usually quick to fix the exploits once found.
Try googling 'firefox malicious code'.
IIRC, all browsers (at one point or another) have had versions that allowed for these types of exploits.
How can it be FUD? TippingPoint bought his exploit for $10,000. Did you spill your kool-aid?
Try googling 'firefox malicious code'.
IIRC, all browsers (at one point or another) have had versions that allowed for these types of exploits.
the ubuntu machine would be running firefox stock so it must be clean right now