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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
I see the claimed vulnerabilities in FF. However, the real question is the capability and the success of the hackers at taking advantage of said vulnerabilities.
Not to discount the use of the patches, but the question remains as to how much risk does a FF user assume when using the browser...........with or without the patches?
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If you look at the vulnerabilities, it gives hackers a fair chance. Don't worry, good old Mac is not invulnerable either as per this report and being a Unix user and developer, I suspected that for a long while. Compared to Linux Mac is far less secure. Both are Unix derived but looks like Mac has been napping around with their purported hype of secure OS vis a vis Windows. OTHOH, apart from Linux, folks at Windows have been working hard patching the holes.
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1350613,00.html
BOSTON -- Calling Apple's Mac OS X one of the easiest operating systems to crack, a security researcher on Wednesday demonstrated several methods to hack into a system and execute arbitrary code to take full control of a computer.
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"Steve Jobs' fairy dust only protects against the most naive attackers," Dai Zovi said. "Writing exploits for [Microsoft] Vista is hard work. Writing exploits for Mac is a lot of fun."
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"It's like going back in time," he said. "You can get a Mac and it is 1999 all over again."