Comments on: Another reason to get a Mac http://polizeros.com/2006/02/27/another-reason-to-get-a-mac/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:25:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Joe Hartley http://polizeros.com/2006/02/27/another-reason-to-get-a-mac/#comment-1336 Joe Hartley Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:52:48 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2006/02/27/another-reason-to-get-a-mac/#comment-1336 The fact is that Mac has had such a small base for so many years that anyone hellbent on destruction didn't have much of a base. Now that it's increased, watch for the Macs to get hit just as hard as the PCs. The fact is that Mac has had such a small base for so many years that anyone hellbent on destruction didn’t have much of a base. Now that it’s increased, watch for the Macs to get hit just as hard as the PCs.

]]> By: Eli Stephens http://polizeros.com/2006/02/27/another-reason-to-get-a-mac/#comment-1335 Eli Stephens Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:50:29 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2006/02/27/another-reason-to-get-a-mac/#comment-1335 Some time back, Apple (or someone else) issued a hacker challenge to see if anyone could hack their web server software. No one succeeded. Some time back, Apple (or someone else) issued a hacker challenge to see if anyone could hack their web server software. No one succeeded.

]]> By: Bob http://polizeros.com/2006/02/27/another-reason-to-get-a-mac/#comment-1333 Bob Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:16:47 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2006/02/27/another-reason-to-get-a-mac/#comment-1333 One worm in, what, 20 years, ain't bad at all. Unix appears to be inherently more secure than Windows, and while there's way more Windows boxes out there, that no one has seriously attacked Macs or Unix/Linux in all these years can also mean they are harder to attack. One worm in, what, 20 years, ain’t bad at all. Unix appears to be inherently more secure than Windows, and while there’s way more Windows boxes out there, that no one has seriously attacked Macs or Unix/Linux in all these years can also mean they are harder to attack.

]]> By: Joe Hartley http://polizeros.com/2006/02/27/another-reason-to-get-a-mac/#comment-1331 Joe Hartley Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:54:34 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2006/02/27/another-reason-to-get-a-mac/#comment-1331 Alas, on the front page of the Marketplace section of the WSJ this morning (B1), there's a story that worms have finally arrived on the Mac. Not nasty yet, but soon to be coming. The story credits Apple's new-found popularity as having hit critical mass so that it's worth the while for the virologists to start writing for the Mac. My impression is that the implementation of Unix in the new Mac program took a page from the MS-Borg and left some gaping security holes. The braggadocia of the Mac users to me always sounded like the proprietary encryption programmers: we're so obscure that nobody can guess what we're doing. Naive in both cases. Alas, on the front page of the Marketplace section of the WSJ this morning (B1), there’s a story that worms have finally arrived on the Mac. Not nasty yet, but soon to be coming. The story credits Apple’s new-found popularity as having hit critical mass so that it’s worth the while for the virologists to start writing for the Mac. My impression is that the implementation of Unix in the new Mac program took a page from the MS-Borg and left some gaping security holes.

The braggadocia of the Mac users to me always sounded like the proprietary encryption programmers: we’re so obscure that nobody can guess what we’re doing. Naive in both cases.

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