One thing I still don't understand is: OK, so we've established that hackers just don't care about OS X as much, but whenever you read through comment strings on forums about OS X's safety compared to Windows, there's often at least one person saying "Man I should just script some crazy shit and wipe the iSmirk off of their smug faces", but nothing ever really happens. I know a lot of people like to talk shit online, but you'd think that someone would do it just because it can be done, not to actually gain anything material from the machines.
You have to consider the fact that hacking a cell phone is not nearly as useful as hacking an actual computer. Perhaps that will change as they think of ways to use that connection for evil, but presently, I think most hackers would prefer to keep their focus on desktops and laptops. We will see if that changes next year.
can we PLEASE FREAKING STOP with the 10 second remark. it was NOT 10 seconds it was over 24 hours, and 10 seconds INTO the second day AFTER the guy coded the crack for 9 hours that previous night.
Chrome makes every page, tab, plugin, etc... into a separate process. Some exploit may be able to take one thing down, but there is no way for it to affect the entire browser (in theory)
It's to bad it doesn't have adblock... I'd totally make the switch
@willyolio: If you had to choose, would you take a Macbook or a same spec-ed Windows machine? That's why Macs were first to fail last year. The person doing windows didn't know about the SP, and he was only 10 minutes away from completing the first day using another crack.
@Charles Ip: That would be why he sold the Mac as soon as he could, exploit intact (meaning he probably didn't use it)...
I've been to the conference in the past, a good 95%+ of the competitors run tweaked to hell and back versions of Linux or BSD.
As for Chrome not falling, my guess is a combination of both. It's design is intrinsically more secure but if Chrome had the market share of IE circa 2000 (like 98% or some ridiculous amount), it would have fallen, no mater the security.
iPhone will be the first to fall, there is so much research being done into exploiting it just to open the phone up it'll be first. Only chance it's got is if it's running 3.0 beta.
Android is a wild card, it's either going to fall shortly after the iPhone or it'll fall last, if at all. The double edged sword of an open OS, all the vulnerabilities are there to see, but since there are no restrictions on what you can do there isn't as much incentive to try and break it.
Symbian, due to it's global market share dominance, will fall second or third, depending on where Android drops.
I'm not sure which will get broken next, WinMo or BB. There's a reason WinMo is the OS on the only NSA approved smartphone, but at the same time BB would not be the success it is in the corporate world if it wasn't secure.
That's kind of embarrassing for Safari. Considering the fact that most of here won't even touch IE with a ten foot pole, and is hated by web developers such as myself to a certain extent. I can't believe it still takes a couple of hours to crack IE & Firefox.
I'm not hating on Apple, but their security by obscurity is catching up to them real fast, and they need to do something about it before they get caught with their pants down.
@GotMex?: In other words, nobody cares enough to try the exploits on the whole six people who use Safari or a Mac. It's secure because the hackers aim for the bigger fish.
@the new face of racial america: You almost hacked me? You never hacked me - you never hacked your cpu... Vista crackin' not Linux crackin' like you should. You're lucky that 3gb shot of RAM didn't blow the welds on the heat sync! You almost hacked me?
Ask any leeter. Any real leeter. It don't matter if you win by an kb or a Gb. Winning's winning.
@mrzippy: Well, the exploit ran in under 10 seconds. This is important because some exploits may take longer, or require more user interaction. This under 10 secs thing means to me that as soon as you visit a compromised site, you're screwed
@mrzippy: Not only did they probably spend months learning about the exploits, but they spent years of their lives learning computers and getting various training. You could argue that it took this person twenty some years to hack into this thing, and the hack of IE took twenty some years plus an hour. Not certain that is going to change the perception, however.
@Troy Stockton: Yeah, all you have to do is tell you that you love her and boom. Too bad that while she's riding you she'll slit your throat and pump nitrous down the hole so that while you laugh you cry, and while she laughs you die.
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Chrome makes every page, tab, plugin, etc... into a separate process. Some exploit may be able to take one thing down, but there is no way for it to affect the entire browser (in theory)
It's to bad it doesn't have adblock... I'd totally make the switch
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no, the mac effect is touting an air of superiority while being the least secure system around.
last year, macs were the first to fall. this year, the mac browser safari was the first to fall.
i think chrome is actually just well-designed.
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I've been to the conference in the past, a good 95%+ of the competitors run tweaked to hell and back versions of Linux or BSD.
As for Chrome not falling, my guess is a combination of both. It's design is intrinsically more secure but if Chrome had the market share of IE circa 2000 (like 98% or some ridiculous amount), it would have fallen, no mater the security.
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Android is a wild card, it's either going to fall shortly after the iPhone or it'll fall last, if at all. The double edged sword of an open OS, all the vulnerabilities are there to see, but since there are no restrictions on what you can do there isn't as much incentive to try and break it.
Symbian, due to it's global market share dominance, will fall second or third, depending on where Android drops.
I'm not sure which will get broken next, WinMo or BB. There's a reason WinMo is the OS on the only NSA approved smartphone, but at the same time BB would not be the success it is in the corporate world if it wasn't secure.
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I'm not hating on Apple, but their security by obscurity is catching up to them real fast, and they need to do something about it before they get caught with their pants down.
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Frankly, that describes some of my happiest moments.
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Wow! Lucky for you then, Groz, that they aim for bigger fish, not bigger asshats.
And, no, I don't disparage you just because of this one slightly-trollish comment. I disparage you based on your history of trollish-commenting.
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Ask any leeter. Any real leeter. It don't matter if you win by an kb or a Gb. Winning's winning.
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I guess I'll move back to Lynx for my web reading then....
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All he did was load a website with the exploit in 10 seconds.
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That's pretty much what would happen if I ever met Natalie Portman. 10 seconds after we meet...BOOM...I've been morally compromised.
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