Blackhacker

Update:
Forgot the link to the story.

However, Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers’ hardware. “We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac,” he said.

Not smart if you ask me. Can understand if it is not supported but Apple shouldn’t go out of its way to prevent this from happening:

1. Doing so adds complexity to the OS. Complexity is bad. Introduces inefficient, unmaintainable, buggy insecure code.
2. It’ll happen any way. I would stake I left masculine orb that as of the revelation that Apple has been developing all versions of OS X since its inception to run on Intel and PowerPC chips some hacker is right now trying to get OS/X to run on his dusty old x86, and that by next year there will be some hacked up version of OS/X that runs on a regular old PC. Call it Apple wine or apple sauce or MacE. (The last one might fly )

For the past couple of weeks Bob X has been talking about phishing this week he poses a solution:

The simple way to kill phishing is by making it harder for the phisher to make money from it. Right now, a phisher sends out a million e-mails and gets back 100 replies that yield positive data. There is almost no effort involved in sending out the e-mails after the first one, and the quality of the return data is very high. No wonder this is such a popular business!

Let’s change that. If you get phishing e-mail, go the web sites and enter false data. Make up everything — name, sign-on name, password, credit card numbers, everything. Instead of one million messages yielding 100 good replies, now the phisher will have one million messages yielding 100,000 replies of which 100 are good, but WHICH 100?

This technique kills phishing two ways. It certainly increases the phishing labor requirement by about 10,000X. But even more importantly, if banks and e-commerce sites limit the number of failed sign-on attempts from a single IP address to, say, 10 per day, theft as an outcome of phishing becomes close to impossible.

No bounties are required, no cops, no parallel webmail systems that force us to log-in to e-commerce sites when they tell us to. Phishing just becomes a very unprofitable business, which it should be.

Are you in?

If you ask me thats a bot waiting to be written.