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> Perhaps more so than Mac OS X Windows 7 is many orders more secure than OS X—just look at Pwn2Own, OS X is regularly the first to be eliminated.
by beaumartinez 15y ago
> Perhaps more so than Mac OS X
Windows 7 is many orders more secure than OS X—just look at Pwn2Own, OS X is regularly the first to be eliminated.
- tptacek 15y agoPwn2own performance is a hint, but isn't decisive evidence. And you have to take into account the improvements in Lion.
- tzs 15y agoPwn2own doesn't work the way you think it does. The participants use prepared exploits. You can't infer anything about the relative security of different systems that both get exploited there.
- recoiledsnake 15y agoZero day hackers and the malicious Chinese hacker spies also use prepared exploits, so you can infer something about the relative easiness of finding exploitable holes.
- tzs 15y agoWhat do you think you can infer?
- recoiledsnake 15y agoPwn2own may use prepared exploits, but researchers tend to go for the easy low hanging fruit, so there is a lot to infer from who falls on the first day etc. Read this from the horse's mouth and see what you can infer from it. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/questions-for-pwn2own-hacker-charlie-miller/2941 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/questions-for-pwn2own-hac...
- rbanffy 15y agoAll things equal, the most desirable computer will always be the first to go.
- astrodust 15y agoDon't confuse Safari, the browser, with OS X the operating system.
- tzs 15y agoThe people who actually have beaten OS X in Pwn2Own say Lion is MORE secure now than Windows 7 or Ubuntu Linux: http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/07/23/leapfrogs.windows.7.linux.but.still.not.perfect/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/07/23/leapfrogs.windows.7.l...