voyager6868
join:2003-01-29
Waterloo, ON | Apple is perfect
Huh? I thought Macs were invulnerable to any type of virus or intrusion because the TV ad says so. Clearly these wireless hackers are on dope, right Apple? |
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koitsu
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join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
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October 2nd, @02:46PM
| Transcript with a person I used to work with (now in a different dept.), when I informed him that his personal/at-home Macbook was siphoning spam/unsolicited mail through our corporate mail servers via an SSH tunnel on one of our shell machines:
"No! You're not listening! That can't be happening."
"Well, it's happening. I'm sitting here looking at the mail server queue, and I'm sitting here looking at the packets with tcpdump. It's like you've got a trojan or some malicious software on your home machine"
"That's impossible. There is no spyware, no trojans, no viruses. That can't happen, it's a Mac."
Turns out he had configured his mail server on his Macbook to push SMTP via the SSH tunnel (which redirected through one of our corporate shell machines to the corporate mail server) -- while at the same time, had port-forwarded an arbitrary port on his home router to his Macbook ""for testing purposes"". His mail server had no relay access rules configured in it, and was therefore acting an open proxy.
I'm amazed this guy still works here. He could've gotten our entire company added to an RBL/DNSBL. *sigh*
Ignorance is bliss...
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Maxo
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said by voyager6868  :Huh? I thought Macs were invulnerable to any type of virus or intrusion because the TV ad says so. Clearly these wireless hackers are on dope, right Apple? Anyone who touts that system X is invulnerable is fooling only themself. Even in the Linux world people take steps to ensure they have security tuned to high (if they are smart.) The idea your system can't be hacked is naive. Security is relative and more of an ideal than a reality.
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squid7
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join:2006-09-02 | reply to koitsu
No OS, no matter how robust, can defend itself from a stupid user. |
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yabos
join:2003-02-16
Ingersoll, ON | reply to voyager6868
The TV ads don't say they're invulnerable they say they don't have viruses or spyware in the wild which is 100% true. Stop making up stuff. |
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squid7
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join:2006-09-02
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October 2nd, @05:14PM
| More specifically, the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials state that Macs aren't vulnerable to Windows viruses and spyware.
Mac to PC "I run OS ten so I don't have to worry about YOUR viruses and spyware..."
»movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple···x376.mov |
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ifarrell
join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC
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said by voyager6868 :Huh? I thought Macs were invulnerable to any type of virus or intrusion because the TV ad says so. Clearly these wireless hackers are on dope, right Apple? Well you thought wrong.
Perhaps you should watch the TV Ad again because that is not what it says.
There has never been at any time an Ad that states Macs are invulnerable to Viruses or Attacks.
Besides, nobody likes their baby being called ugly. |
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