"That being said, Linux is indeed having bad problems supporting third party stuff. There is currently no easy and unified ways of installing apps or drivers if they come outside of the distribution. :(" Is there a unified way for doing that in Windows 7 or OSX ? Every shittly little app comes with their own installer. So Linux does the standard stuff in an excellent manner, while you are in a crappy situation for everything with Windows. AppStore is for Win 8. Announced.

"Better The Virus I know than the one I Don't"

"The only way to catch a terrorist is by being a terrorist. You can't catch a terrorist if you're not a terrorist and you can't get intelligence from terrorist organizations if you're not a terrorist.The FBI uses false flag operations, they become Al Qaeda and they contact the new recruits and train them in a mock terrorist training camp and bring them up to the point of launching an attack and then arrest." So what you are saying is that the FBI is a Agent-Provocateur Agency ? They make their own "Customers" ? So that they can justify their very existence ? Now quickly give them the powers of the NKVD ! It is said Stalin gave them quotas for Terrorits, errm, counter-revolutionaries. Every rayon had to supply 20 traitors per quarter to be shot; if they didn't deliver this was proof of them being themselves traitors - who had to be shot. So the NKVD-FBI produces their own "terrorists" to justify their existence. NIIICCE !

They surely send the crypto keys to some MSFT server, ready for gubbermint download.

"They can't jail you for refusing to provide back-door access to a service that no longer exists." Shurely they have something in the books which would make you a suuuper-nasty terrorist-supporter/enemy-aider/abetter in that case. After all, their aim is to listen to the dirty messages of someone they don't like and you screw that attempt. I am quite sure they have some kind of law which would make YOU to go to jail for several years for doing that. Yes it is sad, but that is what the whole western world is silently accepting as "legitimate".

From a purely technical POV, it can be done. Simply encrypt the session key with a gubbermint-provided public key and emit the result in the cipherstream. As long as they can keep the corresponding secret key actually "secret", it could be quite secure. I just guess that they will invent some super-stupid alternative way to do it.

Telecom services (including everything internetty) are a convenience even to criminals. They know it can be monitored and a large percentage of them still use it in some kind of (semi-) plaintext mode. It works for quite some time and then they go to jail. The "pros" have learned this and use different modes of communication - mainly meeting people in meatspace. Allegedly, the IRA used couriers with paper-in-mouth messages, ready to be swallowed and digested upon police search. The German army had motorbike courier and special edible paper for the same purpose until recently. If you think about that, it makes a lot of sense, as it thwarts both SIGINT and HACKINT (my term). An American Admiral apparently fucked his buddy generals/Admirals with that tactic in a war game, a few years ago. They were totally reliant on SIGINT. http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-43375922.html http://www.multi-board.com/board/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=38363

At least as long as the current German immigration rules on Americans are sustained. The other way around is not so.

Of course, when targeting a PPC system, the exploit must be coded in a different instruction set. But for a capable engineer that is not harder than x86.

Buffer Overflows work on any microprocessor equally well. At least as long as a procedure call will dump the program counter onto the data stack. If it doesn't, a virtual function table somewhere inside memory will do equally well.

If you could kindly analyze their "Research" (more Science Whoring For Dollars), you would find out that it is indeed a Microsoft-based, userland Exploit ! Not at all a MacOS X issue !

The exploit in question was in MS Office. Before you divulge your propaganda shit, maybe you could read the original piece ??

We expect crappy arguments and nasty tactics from a guy with such a handle. Windows still has the worst security concept with UAC and they still cannot be fucked to make users think about changing context for doing system administration. That will in turn make people click "OK" once too often. And then they are PWNED. MacOS X and Linux do it right because they are Unix, not a 1988 PC like WINDOWS.