Dan Cameron - Latest Comments in MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

nstryker — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:56:15 -0000

i've always been bi-compual.

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

Dave Z — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:46:27 -0000

Mr. S. don't go to the dark side, Macs are so dial-up.

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

Dave Z — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:42:54 -0000

sorry Mr. S., only hippies and Dan can use the mac.

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

nstryker — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:25:48 -0000

and nathan sometimes...now

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

Dave Z — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:48:34 -0000

Maybe you and Steve Jobs are the only mac users left.

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

JaredB — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:11:56 -0000

No, Apple's implementation does.

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:27:03 -0000

What! unix has design flaws? Bah.

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

JaredB — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:08:10 -0000

properly configured Windows or Mac computer will not be vulnerable to infection when it is connected to the network, whereas the "average" setup of either operating system is vulnerable to attacks on a number of levels. The Mac default is certainly better than the Windows one, but it's not perfect, and given more interest by the people writing these kinds of applications would probably be just as infected.

Anyway, Dan here's a link to a good security guide for OSX, from the NSA. They have similar ones for the Windows operating systems as well; they're pretty interesting reading if you're into that sort of thing.

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

nstryker — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:39:45 -0000

does that really prove that it's "less secure"? does security only have to exist programatically? not that i'm a huge fan of security through obscurity.

Re: MS= 7,944, OS X = 0 at Scattered

JaredB — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:35:04 -0000

I guess I'm going to have to start writing some Mac viruses to dispel the misconception that statistics like this can create. The Mac OS (out of the box) suffers from most of the same security design flaws that Windows does, it just isn't as big a target, so people don't waste their time writing for it if their goal is to hit as many computers as they can.