Macs

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Henrik Horneber <horneber at gmail.com> wrote:
> IBMs 2008 security report does not agree.
> http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/trendreports/xforce-2008-annual-report.pdf
>
> Scroll down to Most Vulnerable Operating Systems and see for yourself.
>

Though its now an outdated report thank for it nonetheless.  I noticed
that Microsoft was #1, which is no surprise to me and Apple is
apparently #2.  Again, no OS is perfect and unhackable, but they can
be harder to hack and/or infect.

Interestingly, Linux survived the Pwn to Own hacking contest at CanSecWest 2008.
https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&zx=1eanx5f9mt5co&shva=1#inbox/123afdfd79f44fec

I did notice the MacBook Air went down 2 minutes after the bell.  I'd
like to see how Mac OS X fairs after over a year of security updates
and fixes.

Anyway, unless I suddenly get a crap load more money a month I won't
be getting a Mac.  Ubuntu is just as good for me.  I've got WinXP on
this machine I haven't booted into that OS in ... oh gosh ... about a
year!?  No wait, I booted into it six months ago to do something that
I forget what it was now and I remember Zone Alarm was fussing at me
that it was out of date and my anti-virus was screaming that its
registration code had expired.  Reminded me why I left Windows for
Linux in the first place.

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