Re: [Full-Disclosure] OSX 10.3 Personal Firewall.

From: S . f . Stover (attica_at_stackheap.org)
Date: 10/30/03

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:15:17 -0500

    : > Especially since the majority of OSX users will employ the GUI
    : > firewall configuration application as their primary form of
    : > Internet protection.
    : >
    :
    : You have numbers? Big statement. The majority of OSX users *I* know
    : have their own custom ipfw script. :)

    I would agree, except I've been spending some time on the Apple Discussion
    boards lately, and, well, holy *** but there are a ton of OS X users there
    who don't know *** about the underlying BSD architecture. No, I don't have
    numbers, but the person on those boards who actually uses Terminal is few and
    far between.

    I think a lot of *nix users have adopted OS X (or plan to), but ALL the
    freaking existing Classic users are still there, and they are just as bad as
    your typical Windoze user. Worse maybe, because they've been informed that
    they don't have to think about security because no one ever hacks Macs (which
    is starting to change ;-)

    Just my $0.02. 

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