[SC-L] eWeek says "Apple's Switch to Intel Could Allow OS X Exploits"

[Andrew Rucker Jones]

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> After all, didn't attackers also have access to powerpc systems to build 
> attacks on during the same timeframe that Symantec suggests?  Does the 
> powerpc architecture provide some inherent protection against (say) stack 
> smashing than the x86 does?

I'm not a PowerPC expert, but everything i have read indicates that it
is not any more secure than the x86 architecture. No NX bit, for
example. I think the comments are based solely on the comparative
installed user base, as You observed.

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