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Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs

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In article <mq34qi$6js$1@dont-email.me>, Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>
wrote:
> In article <mq31oa$pnr$1@dont-email.me>,
>  Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 10:24:40 -0400
> > Jerry Bishop <jerry.bishop@nowhere.nohow.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have to wonder if this concept of a firmware worm can be applied to 
> > > an iPhone or iPad, too.  If, in fact, the worm can be delivered by a 
> > > web-site drive-by or phishing email, that could be scary, indeed.
> > 
> > wonder no more
> > it has been possible
> > it is possible
> > 
> > aapple will not admit it ever
> > 
> > some exploits are useful to certain groups of people
> > bounties are paid regularly for exposing exploits
> > there is no shortage of exploits
> > 
> > sock-puppets here will always try to hand wave it all away
> > because that is what they are here for they have nothing useful to offer
> 
> Show me a piece of Mac malware that's "in the wild" (Meaning that it 
> actually exists outside of somebody's fevered imagination or research 
> facility and I (or whoever) could actually catch it without deliberately 
> installing it) and I'll acknowledge that you've got something to say 
> that's worth listening to. Until you do, you're talking out your ass.

Yep, just the usual load of scare tactic bollocks posted / published by
anti-Apple morons who don't know what they're talking about, dumbass
journalists simply out for a story, and anti-malware resellers trying
to con you into buying their crappy pointless software.

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Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs billy@MIX.COM - 2015-08-04 13:28 +0000
  Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-08-04 09:54 -0400
    Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Jerry Bishop <jerry.bishop@nowhere.nohow.com> - 2015-08-04 10:24 -0400
      Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-08-04 10:54 -0400
        Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Jerry Bishop <jerry.bishop@nowhere.nohow.com> - 2015-08-04 13:15 -0400
          Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-04 13:24 -0400
            Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Jerry Bishop <jerry.bishop@nowhere.nohow.com> - 2015-08-04 14:04 -0400
              Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-08-07 12:49 -0700
          Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-04 11:26 -0700
          Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-08-07 12:47 -0700
      Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-08-04 23:20 -0400
      Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-08-07 12:42 -0700
        Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-08-07 13:37 -0700
          Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-08 10:32 +1200
        Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-07 15:17 -0700
    Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-08-04 10:55 -0700
      Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-08-05 08:34 -0700
  Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-04 16:43 +0000
  Re: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-04 16:46 +0000

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