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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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[internetworkers] Mac OS X "Opener",
Alan MacHett, 11/01/2004
- Re: [internetworkers] Mac OS X "Opener", Evan Zimmerman, 11/02/2004
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