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To: for-q-clinton
Security of Mac has been proven time and time again (3 years in a row) that it was the easiest/quickest to hack and gain full access to it at the Pawn2own contest.

And we've pointed out, time and time again, three years running, backed up by statements by the winning hacker, Charlie Miller, that it was not "quickest" or "easiest," but actually took weeks of preliminary work by a world class security expert and two other ex-NSA computer security experts and was merely rapidly executed at the Pawn2Own contest because it was ready. Miller came prepared... the other hackers were not prepared with their hacks of the other platforms. Your repetition of this, in light of your "easiest/quickest" assertion after having being repeatedly disproved by links to the facts, makes your posting of it again a lie, since you cannot claim ignorance of the facts.

108 posted on 07/22/2010 2:21:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker
And we've pointed out, time and time again, three years running, backed up by statements by the winning hacker, Charlie Miller, that it was not "quickest" or "easiest," but actually took weeks of preliminary work by a world class security expert and two other ex-NSA computer security experts and was merely rapidly executed at the Pawn2Own contest because it was ready. Miller came prepared... the other hackers were not prepared with their hacks of the other platforms. Your repetition of this, in light of your "easiest/quickest" assertion after having being repeatedly disproved by links to the facts, makes your posting of it again a lie, since you cannot claim ignorance of the facts.

And yet other teams still couldn't crack windows as fast or as easy. In fact, the last test windows only gave up read access with OS X giving read and write access.

Plus about all tests that compare windows 7 to OS X security Windows 7 wins. This doesn't mean OS X stinks or is garbage. It just means windows is more secure. And it should be they have had years of having the most users on thier OS and have more attempts to hack them then any other system.

OS X is doing very good considering it's niche market and small user base.

124 posted on 07/22/2010 3:09:31 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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