[for-q-clinton]

This should be interesting. But I thought Mac was unbreakable. If Charlie is correct and able to exploit a Mac then I guess what I've always said is correct...it's just not big enough to warrant the hackers to really put a focus on it. I love his analogy.

"Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks, and Windows is living in a house with bars on the windows in the bad part of town."

[bamahead]

ping

[driftdiver]

according to a senior guy at Trend there are ~100,000 new malware signatures created every day.

[ShadowAce]

[Theo]

I don’t see how malware can install itself on a Mac unless someone intentionally installs it by providing their user password. The Mac is only “breakable” if someone intentionally installs a piece of malware. Kind of a dumb thing to do.

[nickcarraway]

Feeling happy to be using Chrome.

[antiRepublicrat]

Nothing is unbreakable. Mac has two advantages: one it has better bars on its windows, and two if you do get in it’s hard to actually do anything due to the security architecture.

But to the argument that there aren’t enough of them, remember that OS 9 and previous had over 100 active, spreading viruses in the wild, and it had nowhere near the 30 million installed base of OS X.