Security through obscurity is one dimensional. Once the ROI of exploitation is outweighs the effort needed to exploit, you might as well lay back and enjoy it (that is IF you even know its happening). Most likely you won’t even know when you have been “picked”.
Well, it ain’t happening with the Macintosh operating system — that’s for sure. I keep hearing about all the bad problems that can happen or will happen — but that’s been going on for years and years, and it’s never come true yet.
I guess that’s why the Macintosh user’s biggest argument these days is whether they should ever bother with an antivirus program. That’s the biggest concern that most of the Macintosh users have. They argue whether it’s a scam to even sell an anti-virus program since nothing has ever shown up in the last few years (and longer).
With the Windows operating system, you wouldn’t dare want to go without an anti-virus program. It would be suicide. That — by itself — tells you a great deal of the difference in the two operating systems.
As far as my system being “picked” — well, I keep checking all the time but never come up with anything. I’ve got all my accesses logged, the firewall operating, check the outgoing connections, run programs to check on anomalous programs, look over those logs for anything suspicious and so on...
It all seems to be a total exercise in futility — since nothing ever happens with my Macintosh. It’s like me looking for some disaster to happen for the last 21 years and never having it happen. It gets tiring to keep watching for the “coming disaster” and — today — still be waiting for that coming disaster that is going to happen with the Macintosh Operating System. It just never comes...
All I can say is let me know when the disaster happens..., it hasn’t come around yet...