Siju George wrote:
Hi,
BSD on x86 has also suffered at the hands of these maniac virus
coders, so much so that there are hardly any BSD x86 web servers on
the web that haven't been repeatedly p0wned.
http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060209SecurityThroughObscurityThreatenedasMacsBecomeMorePopular.html
is the above sentence even remotely true???
No, that part was pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, poking fun at
someone else's silly statements in another article.
Anyone who thinks they will evade viruses and not have to worry about
security by simply running Mac OS(anything, including X) is:
1) a fool
2) ignorant of history.
(yes, there are lots of fools in the world)
I'm sure there are at least a few others old enough to remember the days
when noted computer writers were heard to say things like, "I doubt
there are any real PC-based viruses" and "I don't think it is even
possible to write a virus on a PC". The later was clearly foolish, as
many of us were using virus-like tricks to modify closed-source programs
for constructive purposes long before the Mac even existed. I'm sure I
wasn't the only one who thought of the possibility of replication of
such changes.
'course, anyone who thinks they can avoid viruses and not have to worry
about security by /simply/ running OpenBSD is a step ahead, but still a
fool...and perhaps too confident of history. :)
The Internet is nothing less than a free-for-all war zone. Pretend it
is less, you will get hurt.
Nick.
