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Re: Lies! Wait.. surfing unimpeded? You mean even through all those repeated Safari bugs that have caused them to have to patch more often than Firefox?
And 23 million OSX installs is nothing, when you have to stretch that out over 6 years. Not when you have literally over 250 million windows installs(all the way back to at least win98).
But, I will grant you.. there is heightened security by not locking the browser right to the OS itself. Shame Linux can't take that lesson as well, since I truly hate that design feature, for the same reason I don't use IE on windows. But keep in mind, a lot more windows users don't keep their systems up to date. I've seen far too many times where the OSX patches are deemed critical for security reasons, which readily leads one to believe that if the relatively few Mac users out there weren't keeping their system patched up constantly, there'd be a lot more issues to worry over. | |
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2 edits | Surfing unimpeded I would think because these lab exploits haven't appeared in the wild. All OSes and browsers have vulnerabilities, but to be a problem they have to be exploited. Because of Safari (and Mac in general) low population and quick patching, no one is bothering to take one of these lab-exploits and put it into practice.
In terms of actual OS X security, it looks to me that Vista is just as secure or more so. If OS X saw the same relentless onslaught that the Windows platform does, you would see the same results we do with Windows and I would be buying and installing a NOD32 for Macintosh.
That's the weirdness, OS X is more secure but not because it's more secure. 
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