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To: frgoff
Script Kiddies can write viruses for Windows, but you have to know your stuff to write a virus for OS X.

Sounds like built in security right there.

If you make the O/S hard to write software for, then who is going to want it in the first place. If scripting or simple software is not possible with the O/S it will remain as a minor player. And minor players tend to ramain secure through obscurity.
40 posted on 01/30/2006 12:28:27 PM PST by adorno
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To: adorno

I said you have to know your stuff to write a virus, not a program. There is a difference. A virus is intended to subvert the OS, a program is intended to cooperate with the OS.

Writing software for OS X is incredibly simple.


43 posted on 01/30/2006 12:35:10 PM PST by frgoff
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