Nevermind the normalized/non-normalized security aspects, I'd just like to point out why I jumped into the dabate:
- Joe defends closed systems (walled gardens) with having better security, which is only true if you factor in the whole subset and sanctioned story. Apple don't just do reviews, they also ban API's and put restrictions on technology (no Flash, no JIT etc.) The reason why no interpretation is allowed is precisely so that they can try to statically determine what goes on. You also have to factor in how you are limited to features sanctioned (non-clashing) with Apple, Joe has said on numerous occasions it's due to Android that he has Skype etc. on iOS rather than only safe but boring fart apps! - He then moves on to argue that probably Apple wrote the malicious root-kit themselves, using some pro-active pseudo-apologistic reasoning nobody could quite grasp. I mean... really? - He also states something along the line of "why would you need an anti-virus in the first place", as if software bugs and zero-day- exploits are an impossibility on Apple. Now *that* is fanboyism to be concerned about, somewhat more scary than rational paycheck-fanboyism. On Mar 16, 6:26 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:21:55 AM UTC+1, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > > 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). > > That's a theoretical hack. Even an existing software thing. But did it > impact thousands to hundreds of thousands of people as a worm was actively > spread through the internet to take advantage of these problems and i.e. > create a big botnet of macs, or encrypt people's disks and then ransom their > data, or just download horse porn, or whatever windows worms have been up > to? > > That's what I was referring to. Something that makes a bit of a splash. If > this cannot be done because Apple would somehow manage to make macs update > in time (i.e. before the worm hits critical mass), then Steve Jobs is > effectively right. -- 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.
