Subject: Re: Apple Boot Camp
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/05/2006 19:51:44
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:58:26 -0400, "Charles M. Hannum"
<mycroft@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:23:15PM +0200, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> > I just read in the newspaper, that Apple released some kind of a tool to 
> > make Windows XP boot on EFI-Intel-Macs:
> > 
> > http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
> 
> This is a mistake for them.  I estimate it will be less than a month
> before we see the first virus that enters through Windows and infects
> an OS X installation on the same machine.  It will bring a whole new
> era of malware to OS X.
> 
> Now, running Windows in a virtual machine under OS X...
> 
Agreed strongly, on both counts.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb