 Michieru2zzz zzz zzzPremium
join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL | ... I am sick of these news article's. To put it as clear as possible anyone who thinks there system is completely secure has bird shit up in there head. No matter if it where local or remote your system remains vunerable somehow in one way or the other.
Apple only has the more secure reputation over the fact that so far they been keeping up with security updates. Or does nobody read the details of all those security updates?
Buffer overflows, arbitary code execution, those are holes Apple or some customer found that reported it to them. You can say Mac OS X is more secure because there update period is more frequent or because of it's core. But no matter which way you look at it there is always a way to escalate privilages.
Plus before I get the rant of millions of mac fanboys saying I am some hater, I own three macs and go back all the way to OS9 (Yes I started late) but I am a mac user nevertheless.
Frankly I frown upon those who think OS X is invincible. You can call it because of market share or what ever crap conspiracy theory you grabbed out of your ass. You won't be convincing me.
By the way hackers are intelligent individuals who you should be thankful too because they created important breakthroughts in technology that probably a company could not think of.
What you should be worried about is crackers or the script kiddies.
End rant. |
 N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
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Don't be so quick to speak the truth around here, it's been known to be dangerous.
It's no secret that I have a Mac (1.83 MBP), and I also run a home made Windows box.
That said, it's always been my opinion that anything made by man can be cracked by man. From the lock on your front door, to copy protection on software, to hardware and operating systems. Unless it's handed down from god himself, there's always someone out there with a few more brain cells to rub together (or time on his hands) to find a way to exploit it.
Given the ranker that can often result when dyed in the wool Windows users bust heads with hardcore Mac users, it really does surprise me that someone hasn't taken the time to launch a major exploit on the Mac platform just for the "HAW-HAW" effect of it. This leads me to believe that Mac OS-X is more than just the unwitting beneficiary of "obscurity". If I were smart enough (I'm not) to write a virus for the Mac that would put the hardcore Mac folks in their place, why wouldn't I? Folks write viruses for more than just a quick buck. There's a lot of pride involved in it. Imagine the street cred the guy who wrote that Mac Virus...
Everything else aside, I've said this before. You like your computer, I like mine. Who gives a crap what OS you run or what OS I run. It's my computer, I'll run whatever I like on it. Go have fun with your computer, I'll have fun with mine, and life goes on.
After all it's just a COMPUTER, not your wife's honor or something.... |
