Oh I am sure some sophisticated phishing attack might get a few Mac users, but all of the normal methods, buffer overflow, root level access, tightly integrated systems exploits, simply aren't there for Mac hackers to exploit.
I am getting back into programming on the Mac and the first thing I do for fun is to try and figure out how to exploit the machine to get the most out of it. So far the best I can come up with is some scripting code in Python because it is interpretive. Or simply code something nasty with a legitimate program that I can back door. But Microsoft already does that don't they?
I was talking to a Microsoft security programmer the other day and his biggest complaint was that the hackers use the security releases to figure out how to hack the system so that people that don't upgrade are then vulnerable. He thinks that the 'fixes' often cause more problems than they solve, a two edged sword.
He also said that for Vista, Microsoft doesn't plan to offer any security patches, they think it will be perfect out the door. Interesting huh.
I’m not a conspiracy buff by any means, but sometimes I feel that Microsoft is doing this or purpose. Each version of Windows is supposed to eliminate all these intrusion problems, yet they either still exist or new problems crop up.
Microsoft has a gazillion programmers and a gazillion dollars and they can’t come up with a piece of software that can’t be penetrated by amateur hackers????!!! As Yoda would say, “a break give me”.