Yeah I covered that too in the past. I'm not arguing you are not safer on a mac, I'm arguing the same thing Miller is verifying, macs are safer because they are such a small portion of the market and the hackers don't spend time going after them, not because they are coded by perfect beings up on a mountain top.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:57 AM, David K Watson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > > 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" <[email protected]> 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/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
