Lock up your data, the Govt is coming!

[bogeyman]

There are several.

It is my business to know this.

No, people pay me lots of money to tell them, why should I give it to you for free?

Oh! It's your business to know this, is it?

What business is that then?

Do you work for MI6 or something?
Did MS run it by you first before they implemented this backdoor?
Why did they need several backdoors?
Are you James Bond perhaps?

You, my friend, are FULL OF IT!

[bogeyman]

tell you what - I'll write em all down for you!!

And yes, people do write for the powerpc but read the post again and you'll notice it doesn't mention malware written for that platform, merely the proliferation of malware written for Intel which could run on the new Intel based macs.

Again:

What aspects of the PPC architecture prevent the execution of malware?

Simple enough question.

[DaveB]

On the other hand the next generation of malware is likely to be targetted at the BIOS level.

The newer Intel based BIOS releases conatin more and more high level functionality that can potentially be expoited. PPC architecture will not be vulnerable to the same threat vectors. BIOS Malware for PPC based systems will arrive eventually but only after the easy pickings in the Intel world have been fixed. Pretty much the same cycle as the current OS/Application based Malware we have today.

[ratewhore]

Your focus is wrong bogeyman, you're trying to answer a question that never got asked...

[bogeyman]

Your focus is wrong bogeyman, you're trying to answer a question that never got asked...

Well pardon my focus old boy - should have gone to Specsavers!

So, what you're saying is that malware written for Intel platforms wont run on PPC? Wow! Who'd have thought it?

I don't see that it follows that all the malware written for Windows will somewhow migrate to OS X just because it's running on Intel metal.

I'm getting a Macbook Pro (bloody awful name) as soon as I can. Certainly wouldn't buy a G4 Powerbook at this point.

Not worried about OS X malware - but then I don't worry about it much on my WinTel gear either.

[bogeyman]

On the other hand the next generation of malware is likely to be targetted at the BIOS level.

The newer Intel based BIOS releases conatin more and more high level functionality that can potentially be expoited. PPC architecture will not be vulnerable to the same threat vectors. BIOS Malware for PPC based systems will arrive eventually but only after the easy pickings in the Intel world have been fixed. Pretty much the same cycle as the current OS/Application based Malware we have today.

Yeah - see what you're saying Dave but Intel Macs use EFI not BIOS.

Do you think EFI functionality would offer the same level of exposure?

[threaded]

EFI and security are connected by marketing droids because of scare stories about BIOS viruses.

There is no extra security in EFI, and infact if a virus got into the EFI it would be able to hide itself completely from the OS, and do lots of other wonderful things like spread itself when your machine was "switched off".

HTH

[zeitghost]

EFI? Electronic Fuel Injection?

[threaded]

Well, I guess the 'I' got in there 'cause of the 'I' factor that sales people are hung up on.

[bogeyman]

EFI and security are connected by marketing droids because of scare stories about BIOS viruses.

There is no extra security in EFI, and infact if a virus got into the EFI it would be able to hide itself completely from the OS, and do lots of other wonderful things like spread itself when your machine was "switched off".

HTH

Oh, you truly know it all don't you Threaded !!

You are a fecking expert in everthing under the sun and assume that everyone else knows jack.

Seen a million of you, boy!

Hard day's Googling was it?