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Re: Hackers to challenge Windows, Mac OS X and Linux next week

Bragging rights to Blake.

This one is pretty bad though. It is pretty normal websurfing and/or email-reading behavior and even though people really should know better than click on links they aren't sure of, how many OS X users have been brainwashed into thinking they can't get infected or 'owned' so they are not really on guard as they should be?

I would call this a pretty serious "hack" since it really doesn't require anything but a plain vanilla OS X installation and normal surfing behavior.
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I am curious as to whether OS X asked for the user's password before executing the hack.
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