One Laptop Per Child's former top security architect started a new job at Apple earlier this week. Ivan Krstic joined the Cupertino-based firm on Monday. In his new role, Krstic will try to prevent hacker attacks against the Mac operating system. "I have - at long last - found my new adventure," he wrote in a blog post. " …

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Thursday 14th May 2009 14:04 GMT Dr. Vesselin Bontchev

Prevent, huh?

"try to prevent hacker attacks against the Mac operating system"?! That's like trying to prevent the sunrise. Perhaps the author meant that he will try to develop protection from them.

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Thursday 14th May 2009 15:12 GMT Anonymous Coward

Pwn2Own in 2 seconds

"try to prevent hacker attacks against the Mac operating system" - He has a task I do not envy!

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Thursday 14th May 2009 15:14 GMT Anonymous Coward

Mac

He obviously knows that nothing could improve the security of Windows.

It's perfect, or so I heard.

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Thursday 14th May 2009 22:00 GMT Anonymous Coward

Good for them

I'm glad to see Apple is taking seriously the increased risk that Macs are being subjected to. It is something that they had to start doing eventually and became doubly important once they moved into the x86 arena. The combination of a *NIX based OS and what really is commodity hardware they are operating on now opens up a world of security issues they haven't had to face before. So the addition of Mr. Krstic is a good sign.

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