18 Quotes by Thomas Kristensen

We don't have an 'extremely critical' ranking very often. We use the rating sparingly so people will know when the danger is very serious.

Why bother writing a virus for Linux and Mac when you can get so many other users by writing one for Windows? This is especially true because, for a virus to become serious, it has to find other vulnerable systems, and with Macs, that would be a very limited spread.

Someone who's able to intercept the message as it's transmitted could inject some data, and then the person who verifies the signature would be told it's a valid, unaltered message.

Apple has done much better at dealing with issues in the past couple years than it did before.

This is big problem because a very large number of corporations use Lotus Notes. When users receive an e-mail with an attachment, all they have to do is click on the attachment to read it, and their systems are vulnerable to a remote attack.

IPv6 is still in very early stages of deployment, so it's natural to see issues coming up and getting fixed. The same kind of vulnerability came up in IPv4.

I don't think many software vendors would be willing to run the risk of deliberately placing a back door in their software. The benefits compared to the huge risk of disclosure simply aren't worth it.

Because of all the barriers, it just seems like virus writers won't bother unless they see Macs as some kind of new frontier. Even then, few won't want to put in that kind of time and effort.

An attacker could use the exploit to run any code they want to on a person's system. It could be they want to launch some really nasty code on a user's system.