Posted on 04/30/2007 8:27:38 PM PDT by jdm
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Being a Unix/Linux bigot, I laugh at Microsoft AND Apple.
Why the bias against FreeBSD?
okay,okay, okay. BSD too. I just don’t happen to use BSD. I’m an AT&T UNIX guy, not a Berkeley guy.
It’s true. Vista is more secure than OS X.
Until you install it.
No OS is safe if hackers are determined to crack it.
While I have total respect for these code wizards, I have to ask myself, just what did they they do with their lives before these vulnerabilities became part of the public domain? I hope they have “real” lives on the outside.
Of course. None are completely secure, even when tightened. That’s why some of us go for safER OSs. Make mine UNIX/Linux.
You would think with the PC hacker people out there who have a virulent distaste for all things Apple (and they are out there) that ONE of them would write a virus or spyware that would infect the OS.
Just one.
I wonder why it has not happened?
Perhaps people only write for what they know, and Mac users just are not interested in screwing up other people’s computers. If that is true, it would appear there are a lot of PC users who want nothing more than to foul up the experience of people using PCs, but their specialized knowlege limits them to befouling PCs.
What do you think?
Who’d want to hack a low-share OS like Vista.
Wait til it has as many users as Mac.
:)
I find Vista’s security alerts incredibly annoying. When it’s time to upgrade my home computer it will either be to a Mac or some flavor of Linux.
If they have lives on the “outside”, it’s limited I believe. The people who are really good at this tend to put in lots of time on computers, which limits normal social interaction. Think of them as workaholics. Very intelligent workaholics.
It’s only “safer” because not too many people use it. If everyone moved to UNIX/Linux it would not be safe at all.
You didn’t ask me, but I’ll answer anyway. It’s all in the numbers. When hackers write malicious code, they do it to affect the most people they can. The PC user base dwarfs Mac and UNIX/Linux home users. You write a virus for a PC to get the most bang for the buck.
Besides, if the hackers did enough of the necessary research about Macs to enable them to hack one, they might find that they like Macs.
Just an opinion, of course.
On what do you base that assertion?
“If they have lives on the “outside”, it’s limited I believe. The people who are really good at this tend to put in lots of time on computers, which limits normal social interaction. Think of them as workaholics. Very intelligent workaholics.”
Although I am not a hacker, I did a lot of work using assembler languages and I know how much work hacking involves. Though I stopped programming professionally years ago, I spent many long nights implementing applications.
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