Smug - my ass!
Ive just read about a video and article about hijacking a Macbook in 60 seconds or less and also a follow up article supposedly countering the negative comments received in the first article.
Apparently:
they ultimately decided to run the demo against a Mac due to what Maynor called the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security."
I just dont understand this mentality, would I be considered smug because; I didnt run with knifes or scissors? Wore a seatbelt in a car? Looked each way before I crossed the road? Or engaged any other manner of accident prevention? What is going on with the world? Sheesh!
Besides, it seems theres some confusion over why exactly they used a 3rd party wireless card and whether you could hack a Mac with the built in Apple card and what precisely the hacker can do.
Either way, Ill sit here smug in my ivory tower that there are currently 0 viruses available for the Mac and that if it is truly due to "security through obscurity" (which I dont think it is) the Vista beta got plenty of viruses with a fraction of the users Mac OS X has, comfortable in the knowledge that if any do surface for the Mac Im gonna know about it.
