Apple Hires Former OLPC Security Director

imamac writes "It seems Apple is seeking to beef up security by hiring Ivan Krstic, the one-time director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child. 'Krstic, a well-respected innovator who designed the Bitfrost security specification for the OLPC initiative, joined Cupertino this week and will work on core OS security. His hiring comes at a crucial time for a company that ties security to its marketing campaigns despite public knowledge that it's rather trivial to launch exploits against the Mac.'"

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Re:I am lost here . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

The relevance of the article is that Apple are beginning to close up their back doors, which is amazing and shows restraint on their part.

What's next, marketing to straight people?

Can't we all just get along

[docbrody]

Prediction:
This thread will soon devolve into a flaming argument between Apple Fanbois and Apple FanBoi bashers.

I am so tired of both sides arguing about Apple that I wish Slashdot would just remove the Apple section from the site.

let the games begin

And in other news...

[dave562]

Apple execs have put down their glasses of marketing Kool-Aid and joined the real world. They're obviously trying to get out ahead of the potential security holes in their OS, and they recognize that, despite what the fanbois will say, OSX is just as vulnerable as most other topics. Luckily for Mac users, none of the system crackers seem to care about gay porn or graphic design files.

That argument was bullshit two years ago

[SuperKendall]

The malware industry has barriers to entry just like anything else, until we can make $x it's not worth any investment. OSX user base isn't big enough to generate $x yet.

Price out botnets of a few hundred thousand nodes. Now figure there are 20-30 macs around, which are to some degree homogenous systems and thus in theory easier to target.

Your argument goes straight to hell. When the number of intel macs in peoples homes crossed about five million, the "user base" argument went straight to hell from both a technical and financial sense.

So how come no attacks to speak of? My vote is that the Russian Mafia all use macs, and they don't want to foul their own nest. :-)