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We’ve been hearing about these hackers supposedly shifting their attention to Macs for several years now. They’ve had some success in targeting specific computers in a test environment, but they’ve failed to come up with a viable worm or virus that would be a widespread threat. A few trojan horses have been spotted, but they’ve failed to make any significant headway.
Unlike the Windows PC, no malware exists that can take over a Mac, without the owner authorizing it. Nor will it exist, due to the fundamental nature of the underlying UNIX architecture of the OSX operating system.
Who on earth would download software that they know nothing about? Not I---so my Mac is still safe.
I’m of the mind that in previous times, that some viruses/hacks were made by Apple users who didn’t want to pee in their own swimming pool but that the converse was not so true.
Now we have third world hackers who like to mess with everyone.
The problem is that the OpenBSD its built on, along with Apple's own security on top of it, makes it a tough nut to crack. Think an order of magnitude more difficult resulting in many fewer successes on the part of hackers.
Since the modern hacker is after computing platforms used to send out spam and launch DDoS attacks, why should they spend the effort on Apple computers when with the same effort (e.g. - manhours) spent trying to root an Apple machine they can successfully take over a dozen easy-pickings Windows products? Follow the money...
I don’t know why people have these stupid Mac vs. PC vs. (U)nix wars. The only thing I care about is that Apple stock has been very, very, very good for me over this past year.
Is someone coordinating the FUD? This is the second article like this today. Maybe it’s a slow news day so they have to recycle four-year old articles saying “The Mac Hack Attack is Coming Soon!”
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the Apple Mac is becoming an increasingly tempting target for malicious computer hackers"...but of course, none of them has actually come forward with one, and to be completely honest, we couldn't find anyone who claimed to be a computer hacker who would speak to us on the record, oh, what the hell, the truth is, I was paid off to write this story, and it was largely based on some talking points from an unnamed competitor of Apple..."