Sometimes the blogosmear just distorts things way too much. The basic truth is that OS X, at the moment, is not under attack from any exploits, whether they're viruses, worms, trojans, or whatever. Period. The level of danger to an internet-connected OS X user is far, far lower than that of a Windows XP user, nearly non-existent, in fact. This should be something that Apple shouts from the rooftops even more than they do already - businesses and government agencies, take note!
I'm tired of the masses flogging every "announcement" about OS X vulnerabilities. It's as if people want it to be dragged down, alongside Windows, into the bog of insecurity. Shouldn't we be rooting for an OS that substantially reduces worries like that? Shouldn't we be demanding that XP behave more like OS X, and not the other way around? The FUD that get spread is irresponsible and most likely attention-seeking - and that's just from the bloggers, not even the shameless OS X "security" companies.
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Friday, July 14, 2006
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I think security is basically a trade off. For a long time, Microsoft sacrificed security for improved time-to-market, but they're certainly having to make a huge investment after the fact.
I don't think XP/Vista or OS/X is the last word in all this though. I agree that OS/X beats XP hands-down on security right now, but either one would lose to a completely new OS that made security a priority. Would it run any interesting software though?
Surely the current near invulnerability of OS X is mostly a function of its small market share. There simply isn't a lot of potential for mayhem or profit by writing OS X viruses, or what-have-you. If government agencies and other large organizations heeded your call to move to OS X, I'm sure that within a fairly short span of time the online environment would become much more hostile to Macs.
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