ANNOYED AT Apple fanboy smugness, an anonymous independent insecurity expert has developed a worm for the Apple OSX.

The bloke, who goes by the handle of "Information Security Sellout" has developed a worm that targets an unknown vulnerability affecting OSX.

In his bog, Information Security Sellout claimed that his proof-of-concept worm could gain root access. His worm was based on a variation of mDNSResponder vulnerabilities that Apple had previously patched.

He had also tested it on a network of approximately 1,500 OS X systems.

His version, called "Rape", only snuffles in a LAN, but he says it would not take much extra work for the worm to attack down the Internet tubes.

When his research is finished he says he will give it to Apple to have a look at. However looking at the comments in his bog it appears his actions have caused a crisis of faith among Apple fanboys. There are the usual death threats but what is sad is that many of them are completely convinced that a worm in an Apple is impossible.

One fanboy issued his own fatwa for daring to contradict the myth that Apple is impervious to worms. As he eloquently put told the hacker: "I dare you to demonstrate this at Defcon you retarded Microsoftie. We will drag you out, put a bullet in you, and bury your body so deep it will take a nuclear blast to find your body."

Apparently you haven't read many of Tish's posts.

Syd Lexia wrote:

To be fair, the Mac OS was first and Bill Gates totally ripped it off.

Accually, that's not true.

The honor for producing the first working GUI goes to Doug Englebart – at the time an employee of Stanford Research Institute. Englebart and colleagues created a program called the oNLine System in 1965-‘68.

Years later, still in a time when nobody knew what the future of computers was to be, Xerox put together a team of researchers who did nothing more than put ideas together to see what they produced. The team, located at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, was convinced that Englebart’s model would work on computers available for individual work stations, and they produced two working models, the Alto and the Star. The Star was made available to the public, mouse and all, in 1981. But it was very expensive, and they sold only 25 thousand of them. But this was the first GUI-based OS available to the public.

Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple, saw some of the potential in a GUI during tours of the Xerox facility. Some say that is where Jobs got his ideas for the GUI found on the Mac. Jobs did see some programming that contained GUI concepts, but the development team for the Lisa (and Bill Gates, by the way) saw the release of the Star. Both the development team and Bill Gates left with new visions for the future of the PC. The Lisa was retrofitted with a GUI OS before it was released and Microsoft began working on Windows. Like the Star, Lisa was a very expensive computer and few sold.

It wasn't 1984's release of the MAC, was there finally an afforable home computer with a GUI.

Microsft's Windows 1.0 was first presented to the public on November 10, 1983.

The original Macintosh with System 1.0 (MAC OS's original name.) was released on January 24, 1984.

In all reality, Gate's didn't ripoff Jobs, and Jobs didn't rip off Gates.

Both Mac and Microsoft ripped off Xerox, who ripped off SRI.

End of debate.