Kevin was all over Steve Jobs yesterday, no not like that, he told us about Apple’s release of the Safari web browser for the Windows platform. I’ve seen a lot of hoopla about that since the beta version was released and most pundits are thinking the release is to give Apple a Windows connection for the iPhone. That is probably one of their goals but it seems to me there is another, unwanted, portal that is going to be opened by a Windows version of Safari. Security exploits. I think we just may see Safari for Windows become the training wheels for hackers who now have a Windows-based portal into writing exploits that will make it back to the Mac side. We know there are no shortage of jerks writing browser-based security hacks and now they have Safari to practice with. Remember where you heard this.
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