Speaking of intellectual honesty, facts and stuff, here is some more things Charlie Miller said:
<http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pwn2own-mac-hack,2254-6.html> "I usually work on a pretty old MacBook that I've upgraded the hard drive on. " and "For now, I'd still recommend Macs for typical users as the odds of something targeting them are so low that they might go years without seeing any malware, even though if an attacker cared to target them it would be easier for them." This was from Mar 2009, so its possible he's changed his mind since then, but I doubt it. Charlie Miller focuses on Macs, but his main argument is that all commercial OSs are horribly insecure and their makers aren't doing enough to secure them. When it comes down to choices though, he uses a mac and recommends it for typical users. I'd guess that he'll likely continue to do so until the malware situation changes to target the Mac. There is no sign of that happening anytime soon. On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: > From: mike <xha...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Apple security and Charlie Miller > > Sounds good...not true, but it sounds good if you ignore facts and stuff. > > On Mar 22, 2010 10:53 AM, "tjpa" <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2010, at 9:27 PM, mike wrote: > > That's the point...it's about > being intellectually hone... > That's just silly. Coding a secure OS is not magic. It is hard work. The > creators of BSD and OS X did the hard work. The creators of Windows didn't. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
