Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Jackarse

Bill Thompson on that OS X trojan:

At the moment the fake codec is being spread via porn sites, but it will quickly spread to more mainstream sites, and that's when it will get dangerous and could affect a lot of Mac users who believe that they don't need to worry about system security.


Wrong. The codec doesn't accidentally turn up on sites, it has to be placed there by the site's creators. And since doing so would constitute a criminal act, how likely is it that any "mainstream" site will do so? Does he really think that Steve Chen and Chad Hurley are going to try to supplement their Google millions with a little credit card fraud?

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