On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote:
6% of a gigantic number is still a gigantic number. Why are there 0 worms? > Also, where is your 6% number from? > I stand corrected, it seems to be more around 10-11% thanks to the iPad sales<http://www.winsupersite.com/blogs/tabid/3256/entryid/76068/Mac-Market-Share-4-42-in-Q4-2010-4-13-for-CY-2010.aspx>. Still not enough to attract hackers' attention, IMO. > No I did not. Neither you nor I nor anyone else here has come up with any >> reasonable argument or link to research to show that mac users are more or >> less security conscious than anyone else. However, Steve Jobs is certainly >> attempting to sell that idea that as a mac user you don't have to be >> security conscious, which is an interesting but otherwise irrelevant >> sidenote to this discussion. Why do you say that mac users are "usually more >> security savvy"? >> > Fine, let's ignore this, it doesn't change anything to my overall point. 100% of 10% is still a tiny fraction of what you can get out of a Windows virus. > One easy way to get your group's name in newspapers of note is to cause a > minor storm in a teacup by releasing the first mac 'virus' (that's what the > media is likely going to call it, anyways). > Doubtful since the first Mac virus seems to have been identified in 2006<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12537279/ns/technology_and_science-security/> . And it made such big headlines that you don't even seem to have noticed back then (neither did I, I had to look it up). Someone coming up with another Mac OS virus will probably be hardly worth a 140 character mention on Twitter. And by the way, the latest to date is from yesterday <http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-01.html>(Adobe, of course). For proof, I could just point at the _ridiculous_ amount of brainspace > dedicated by the blogosphere by anything apple has ever done in the past 2 > years, including the java posse which continues to pad the podcast by at > least 10 minutes of discussion if Steve Jobs's turtleneck is 5 millimeters > out of balance. > I certainly agree with that, I facepalmed in real life last time the 'Posse spent a few minutes discussing the announcement of the announcement of the iPad 2. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
