According to Miller, his attack is not an isolated incident, and should not be viewed as the inevitable result of the kinds of bugs found in all software. Rather, he said, it was just one symptom of flawed Apple security practices that have left the entire Mac OS X platform vulnerable on both the Mac and the iPhone.

Miller, who leads a team of researchers at consultancy Independent Security Evaluators, announced in late July that his group had discovered a way to attack the iPhone through a vulnerability in the Safari Web browser that could give an attacker nearly complete control of the device. Miller withheld technical details until the conference, giving Apple time to issue a patch.

Acording to ChannelWeb, Miller listed a number of what he considers to be specific bad development practices on Apple's part, the most egregious of which is Apple's regular inclusion in the OS X platform of older, outdated versions of open source code, much of which has known security bugs.

Hmmm. Maybe it's just me, but I've been using Mac OS X since version 10.0 and have never run into security issues.