Re: 2 critical vulns and the clock isticking..[Fwd:[EEYEB-2000801]]

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Todd Towles wrote:
> Does VMWare run on Mac OS?? That would be a very useful situation. Mac
> bottom level, Windows in VM.

Not at present.  They have VirtualPC instead.  The way VMWare works, 
you're running on the actual CPU, but the hardware perhiperals are 
virtual.  Which means it needs to be an x86 CPU.  That barrier is gone 
now, if they wish to port.

One app I really miss on OS X is IDA Pro.  You can go through many hoops 
to get the Linux port to run, but I'm told it's way too slow to consider 
usable.  I have heard it theorized that were it running the emulation on 
the x86 OS X, it would be tons faster, I hope to find out soon.

> I wouldn't ever suggest moving to OS X just for security, it is a
> benefit (for now), but there are enough reasons to move FROM MS to
> another home desktop OS in my mind.

Having had a casual look, and being privvy to a couple of private 
reports about OS X vulns, it appears that they've got all the same 
mistakes to make that the other unixes made 10 years ago.  Plus whatever 
problems their UI adds.  So I'm not sure I'd even put it above Windows 
in terms of absolute number of theoretical holes.

However, I do believe that there is a lot of practical reason to run 
just anything besides Windows, if you want to miss a lot of the volume 
of attacks.

And now we can have the my-OS-is-better-than-your-OS holy war.  (My 
first round was why my Apple ][ was better than someone's C64 or Atari 
800.)

> Mac would be great, if the hardware wasn't so much.

The prices are, as usual, a bit steep.  However, they went for the 
high-end first.  If you look at new almost-similar Dell, it's in the 
same ballpark.  (This is laptops, I'm referring to.)

                                        BB
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