CRN’s security analyst Kevin Finisterre seems to believe that Mac is "more hackable" on Intel… for the wrong reasons.
Apple’s switch from PowerPC to Intel-based Macs could lead to more attacks and cross-platform exploits, according to some researchers and solution providers.OS X includes features that make it a target for malware, and the Intel-based Macs may be even more vulnerable than their PowerPC predecessors, according to security researcher Kevin Finisterre, who created the three recent versions of InqTana, a proof-of-concept worm that spreads through a vulnerability in the Bluetooth feature of OS X."I honestly think that the general "script kiddie" crowd is more familiar and comfortable on an Intel processor versus a PowerPC," said Finisterre. Simply moving from the 4-byte instructions that PowerPCs use to the 1-byte instructions Intel processors use lowers the bar for exploits, he added.
It’s been a while since I last had to cut and paste articles for debunking, but this one is an interesting article, comes from a well established source, and has a lot more to it than meets the eye.
Starting off with the most obvious fallacies in his statement, hackers write exploits, "script kiddies" download and run them. People don’t hack Mac because its not worth it, not because PPC makes it impossible to do. If you can write code for x86, you can write code for PPC. PPC is not bulletproof, and 4 bytes is not an impregnable armor… else the rest of the world would have used it too.