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tptacek on March 28, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pwn2Own winner says Macs are more safe, though les...

What part of the Mac is analogous to the shiny security system? It's Win32 that has all the sensors and alarm circuits these days.

_tggb on March 28, 2009 [–]

Shiny, from the users perspective. Security-wise, I thought that OS X came with its firewall (which is really just ipfw) enabled.

Googling just now corrected me, so I deleted my comment as it was inaccurate and a poor analogy. Sorry about that.

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