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To: for-q-clinton

You didn't read, or perhaps just didn't understand, what I wrote earlier.

Years ago, Mac security was the result of two factors: 1) a secure design based on UNIX, and 2) relative obscurity, such that it wasn't a favorite target like Windows.

In recent years, the obscurity has disappeared. Hackers target MacOS with Trojans and other attacks that are directed at the USER. Note that word, fqc... USER. Because the user is the weak link on a Mac.

The MacOS operating system security remains solid (modulo stupid errors like the one of this thread) because of its DESIGN. The dearth of successful external attacks on the system itself (without the user doing something) demonstrates this.

I'm not "twisting facts". The above ARE the facts, just as I stated them earlier.

67 posted on 11/29/2017 5:50:50 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")

To: for-q-clinton

When someone on your side eloquently tells you to shut up, maybe you should.

73 posted on 11/29/2017 7:08:51 AM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)

Exactly security by obscurity. Thanks for playing.

79 posted on 11/29/2017 3:15:44 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)

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