You aren't trying to assume or infer that some here might be prejudiced?
Come on now. why interject a bit of truth or realism here as there are
some who will not stand for it. <G> (at least for long...)
If the world were as some would like, there would not be any consultants
out there driving around in their hummers.. Just try to imagine a world
without MS windows and everyone had a Mac running the apple OS. Then there
would be the Apple haters. Some might be jealous that Steve Jobs and co. did
not really market properly the original MAC instead of holding it so closed.
PS: Andrew Flueglman had a Mac in my basement 3 months before it was
introduced. I wanted one at the time. It was neat...
Rich
At 07:19 PM 5/8/2007, you wrote:
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 16:03:03 -0700
From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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This contest proved that a mac could be hacked easily...as soon as there was
some motive to do so which was money. This has been the contention of many
that the reasons macs aren't targeted is not because they are more secure
but because there is no point, no money in it. If your job is to get as
many machines on a botnet as possible why would you target such a minuscule
audience? If you are interested in making money from spam, again why
target an audience where there are nothing but empty seats in the theater?
In April alone Apple released a dozen security patches that could allow
arbitrary code to be run. Each one of these a possible exploit of the type
that was used at CanSecWest. Right now is it 'safer' to run mac os then
windows? Sure. But I think the reason why that is so is misunderstood by
most mac users. The spread of this misinformation doesn't do anyone any
good. It's become a knee jerk reaction from mac users when talked to about
security to just recite the mantra 'we are more secure'. All I hope for is
a little intellectual honesty about the topic and less kool-aid.
Mike
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