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To: for-q-clinton
The fact that no one was attacking them because the target was so small is obscurity. You admit that then you change the definition to suit your needs.

There YOU go again telling more lies. There were lots of people attacking OSX trying to be the first to create a virus for the Mac. They failed. There were thousands of attempts. . . and thousands of failures. No one was going to leave tens of millions of bare naked computers of people with MORE MONEY than PC users un-attacked just because YOU thought they were "obscure."

These same hackers went are the people who after 12,000 PCs that were vulnerable by writing the Witty Worm virus. . . why would they NOT go after the then 60,000,000 vulnerable and target RICH environment of the Apple Macs where 99%, some 59,400,000 bare naked computers, were running without firewalls and without antivirus software? This was a time that a mere 2000 computers in a bot was worth $50,000 for just a two week window of use on the black market. . . and you think it was NOT WORTH GOING AFTER 60 million supposedly vulnerable computers that were in no way protected by antivirus programs because they were, in your word "obscure?" That is the LIE.

They did not go after the Mac because they could not crack it. It had literally had no vectors of attack.

75 posted on 11/29/2017 8:06:34 AM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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"who after 12,000 PCs. . ." should have been "who went after 12,000 PCs. . ."
76 posted on 11/29/2017 8:11:40 AM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker

So you disagree with dayglored.


96 posted on 11/30/2017 11:21:37 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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