1. protecting "stupid users" is the exactly same tough job for windows. to a lesser extend. linux, as well. there is no excuse here
2. again, its about comparison. 2 min is obviously misleading. but ppl has time to prepare for vista as well, and ubuntu
3. why is that so hard to accept hacker's own word that he targetted mac because "it was easiest for him"? he is the hacker. why somebody who aren't capable writing codes would think they know better than hacker himself?
1. I probably shouldn't have used the term "stupid user" (i.e. this came up it later posts), but it was late, and I was tired, so being "PC" wasn't on the top of my list. Whatever the case, how far should "due diligence" extend? All three OS's have some protection mechanisms that warn you if your about to due something that could be far reaching (i.e. elevation of privileges)... so how much further do they have to go to protect the user? My point here is simple... if you are about do something you probably shouldn't and a big dialog box comes up and says "hey, maybe you shouldn't do this", but they do it anyway, how is the manufacturer at fault? The only "solution" to this problem is just to prevent the user from ever doing it at all, but I suspect there would be a much larger uproar to this then the latter
2. Your right, they did, but to the average person hearing the message "Mac was hacked in 2 minutes", being informed of the "extra" details goes a long way. To that point a number of comments were made after the conference stating that Vista exploits had been prepared beforehand, but that they didn't take into account SP1 being installed (nor the fact the most people didn't "care" about Linux). Whatever the case I'm not trying to defend Mac any more then Windows or Linux... I just think they were trying to sensationalize the results by withholding/misrepresenting all the information.
3. Not sure if this is intentionally directed towards me or not, but it is probably unwise to make such far reaching assumptions. I'm sure he had his reasons for targeting the Mac... perhaps it was for notoriety, i.e. would the headline "someone hacks windows" really be headline worthy... or perhaps it was the "easiest", I don't claim to speak for the participants involved, so I could care less either way.
Anyway, I stand my my original statement that I'll withhold judgement until the details of this exploit are released to the public.
