They forget to mention (or don't realize) that Mac OS just underwent a
HUGE change over the last couple of years, though.  Mac OS 9 is what I
would have called "MacOS"... Mac OS X is Unix under the hood.  100%
Unix.  So it'll be interesting when exploits for certain Unix
applications come out, it may affect Mac OS, but not be listed as a Mac
OS vulnerability.

MacOS 9 was virtually unhackable... really.  There was very little you
could do to it from the network side, and it was even smart enough to
turn off its Ethernet interface when there was no software registered
using it.  (In other words, service/server software would "register"
that it was using the port and it would stay on, but if you were on an
end-user workstation doing e-mail and documents, most of the time your
Ethernet port wouldn't respond to outside network connection attempts at
all.)

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Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com

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