I found this interesting, apparently Dino A. Dai Zovi (http://twitter.com/dinodaizovi http://twitter.com/dinodaizovi) and Stefan Esser (http://twitter.com/i0n1c

I found this interesting, apparently Dino A. Dai Zovi (http://twitter.com/dinodaizovi http://twitter.com/dinodaizovi) and Stefan Esser (http://twitter.com/i0n1c http://twitter.com/i0n1c), two security researchers (hackers) have apparently received invitations to try out Mac OS X Lion with some strings attached that they can't talk about the as of yet unreleased OS: https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/40903620438269952 https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/40903620438269952 https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/40905883584180224 https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/40905883584180224 Question related to this: https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/40906705118175233 https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/40906705118175233 https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/40906796650471424 https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/40906796650471424 https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/40909480342331392 https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/40909480342331392 If indeed Apple is moving forward and opening up dialogue with external researchers this is a good thing. Hopefully that means that Mac OS X Lion will finally join the ranks of Windows 7 and Linux in having full ASLR available and more sand-boxing of the various components so that it becomes a much more hardened target.