Posted on 11/11/2010 7:57:51 PM PST by TomServo
Perhaps you've heard that the Apple Mac OS X operating system is simply more secure by design and not prone to the security flaws and vulnerabilities that plague the dominant Microsoft Windows operating system? Well, don't believe the hype. Apple unleashed an update for Mac OS X this week which fixes a massive 134 vulnerabilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
Ping!
All 134 of which... I haven’t noticed.
Me either. Mac FTW.
Exactly. Windows trolls who keep banging on OS X hoping to find something wrong with it are too full of themselves to know any better. Anyone that still uses windows for any serious work is just ignorant (office environments will be forgiven for now).
Did Microsoft write this?
Interesting.
I wonder how many of those vulnerabilities were due to the choice of [programming] language either in the current implementation or in ‘translating’ sourcecode/OS from one to another (that is, the *nix from which it draws on).
Never! Macs are invulnerable! ;)
Well... Windoze users/trolls would be the most experienced ones with problems and fairly qualified in my book to know one when they see it. I mean after all they deal with them day in and day out...
>Exactly. Windows trolls who keep banging on OS X hoping to find something wrong with it are too full of themselves to know any better.
Actually I think a *lot* if the windows vulnerabilities are due directly to the language the OS was written in: C/C++.
For example: Virtually *ALL* of the ‘buffer overflow’ errors are due to C’s [in]ability to verify an array index.
Yes. People love to bitch about insecure Microsoft software, when does Adobe get its fair share of the blame?
That is why I don't understand MS integrating IE so tightly with the OS. Sheesh, take your most vulnerable, network-facing program, and let it reach into the OS? {shudder}
This is why OS/X and Linux have a fundamental advantage - they do a much better job of walling off applications and restricting what they can/cannot do. Also, on Linux (and OS/X?) your typical user runs with just user authority on the machine. So even if an application is compromised, it'll only have the privileges of a user, not an administrator or super-user. Far too many people set up their windows boxes with their main account being an administrator account.
BSD is secure? Fascinatingly delusional.
IE should be killed.
I didn’t notice any of the 134 either.
Running in an offline kiosk mode, any OS can be made “safe”.
If that’s the case then Linux, by it’s free nature, should trump Mac or Win.
> To: PugetSoundSoldier; driftdiver
Sorry to say, PugetSoundSoldier is no longer on FR:
And those who set up Windows with limited user accounts often find that their non-Microsoft apps break.
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