Worm attacks Apple machines via bluetooth connections

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:27 pm

So much for a superior Apple product:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/0 ... index.html

and this article:
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,702 ... ss.culture

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:56 pm

Well, Apple is known for not fixing old UNIX flaws, that was a problem years ago, so this doesn't surprise me. When you make a more complex system, you make more chances for security bugs, Apple's codebase is probably large, and their GUI is close to the actual OS, I think the reason we in the Linux and BSD world don't suffer these problems is that we aren't one entity, for example, on top of Linux you have Xorg, and there a whole other team, on top of that either KDE or GNOME, again different developers who can spot bugs.

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:48 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote:Well, Apple is known for not fixing old UNIX flaws, that was a problem years ago, so this doesn't surprise me.

So which old version of UNIX uses bluetooth?