On 10/15/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You misapply the eWeek story. EWeek is comparing different settings of
the same insecure OS. No one here is proposing that some settings are
less dangerous than others. You don't make a good case for your
position by trying to change the
1. That is so clearly untrue. And you can read any security reviews
of any kind from any source, except Microsoft or those paid by Microsoft,
to
verify it.
Every OS has weaknesses and exploits, even *nix. I read about them every
day. At what point is something secure? Zero bugs? 10
For years you've been saying how Mac is so much better than a PC because it's
so much
easier. Now it's better because it's harder? Color me surprised and please
put some
mustard on that pretzel logic for me.
Jeff, I'm afraid you've missed earlier evidence of this. While he has now
blasts
Jeff, I'm afraid you've missed earlier evidence of this. While he has now
blasts Vista for jumping through hoops to support old apps, not so long ago
he blasted it for breaking old apps. It's difficult to take this very
seriously.
You have poor memory. My complaint was about device drivers, not
Since when did apple know in os 8 that they were going to BSD? They didn't
know this when putting out os 9 the first time. This alternate timeline
of yours also completely ignores rhapsody. Apple didn't really lay out any
plans for OS X till first quarter 98. So in 98 they laid plans out
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Security Ignorance
Since when did apple know in os 8 that they were going to BSD? They
didn't
know this when putting out os 9 the first time. This alternate
timeline
of yours
1. Apple is very secretive about upcoming moves; where did you get this
timeline?
2. Define small - Apple's market cap. is on track to over take IBM's.
Oh my. I'm being attacked from both sides. I MUST BE RIGHT!
* ==
Make sure you don't offer any facts or anything whatsoever to back up what
you say. You must be right cause you say so. Just keep whistling and
skipping along.
Mike
On 10/16/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Apple is very secretive about upcoming moves; where did you get this
Make sure you don't offer any facts or anything whatsoever to back up what
you say. You must be right cause you say so. Just keep whistling and
skipping along.
Good advice. Thank you. Time and time again the Computer Guys List comes
through.
We always count on your input in this area.
Mike
On 10/16/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Make sure you don't offer any facts or anything whatsoever to back up
what
you say. You must be right cause you say so. Just keep whistling and
skipping along.
Good advice. Thank you. Time
You sure about that John? eWeek seems to agree with me. Now, I won't argue
that running as a least privilege user will absolutely eliminate security
exploits...
You misapply the eWeek story. EWeek is comparing different settings of
the same insecure OS. No one here is proposing that some
On 10/14/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which only proves the point that Windows security is poor and that you
are so sold on the MS way of doing things that you can't get your brain
around the concept of better security.
Windows' biggest problem is installing the default user
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