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  • From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Mac OS X "Opener"
  • Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:35:34 -0500 (EST)

Hackers Target Apple? Congratulations!
Hackers wouldn't bother writing malicious code to infect the Macintosh
unless those computers actually mattered.

By Eric Hellweg
October 28, 2004

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/wo_hellweg102804.asp?p=0

* * * * *

I gather from some other sites that the threat was cobbled together from
some older *nix malware and that it doesn't do all that much; so it's
doesn't seem to be much of a threat at all. But the article brings up a
good point about being valued as a target.

-Alan





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