Re: mac trojan in-the-wild

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:23:50 MDT, "Dr. Neal Krawetz" said:

> However, I don't know any Mac users who are not also Windows users.
> And ever Mac user I know (in and out of the security field) are much more
> cautious about their systems.

Statisticians call this a self-selection bias.  There's an exceedingly high
probability that even those Mac users that you know outside the security field
have a different attitude for security, just because they know Dr. Neal Krawetz.
You're not allowed to extrapolate from "The ones I know" to "all" unless you
can show that the two sample populations are, in fact, equivalent.

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