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Re: Microsoft announce most secure OS on the planet
From: "David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:37:41 +0100
The same goes with the Mac and OS X. As the Mac becomes more popular it becomes a rich target for the mass exploitation of worms, etc. and criminals start targeting it. I have often claimed that the Mac's day is coming, and it's almost fully here.
Macs are an interesting example. They were actually targeted more (at any rate, virally) -before- OS X, though the number of viruses was a tiny fraction of the number of PC viruses. Yet many of them appeared at a time when Macs were a very niche product and priced accordingly (pre-iMac), and home Macs were probably much rarer than now (OK, I'm guessing). I don't think that's an anomaly, though: at that point, malware was almost exclusively hobbyist virus-writing, so ROI wasn't much of an issue. Of course, there are other factors: OS X may not be invulnerable, but it does at least have a security model... -- David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP Small Blue-Green World _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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