Mac OS 10.6 has been end-of-life since either September 2013 (last security update) or February 2014, depending on how you count: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done-here-are-your-os-x-upgrade-options/
Our policy with dropping support in the past has been to discontinue support for a platform when the vendor stops providing security updates. Moreover dropping 10.6 support would mean that we could ship 64bit-only binaries for Mac, which would save us build time and the trouble of assembling double-sized "fat" 32+64bit binaries, just for these already insecure users. Moreover, these 64bit binaries could be hardened with 10.7+ hardening options. Unfortunately, roughly 19% of Mac users were still on OSX 10.6 as of March 2014, which is quite a lot of people. Technically these people should be able to use Tails on their Macs, since Tails has officially supported UEFI and Mac hardware since Tails v1.1. These ancient Mac users would be much better off in Tails, too. Are there any 10.6 32bit Mac users on this list? Is Tails a workable option for you? -- Mike Perry
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