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RE: A Little Knowledge of Security Can Be a Dangerous Thing
by Decius at 7:42 pm EST, Dec 18, 2004

noteworthy wrote:
] The underlying problem here isn't operating system security
] or even the vendor runaround but, rather, people who just
] read headlines or summaries
of security news and then
] form Opinions
based on this information -- or lack
] thereof. And there's a very good chance that these people are
] making decisions based on these ill-informed Opinions.

Quite a reasonable point. Unfortunately, this is coming from someone who thinks that Mac OSX is "more secure" then Windows, talking about someone who thinks that Mac OSX is "no longer secure." Both of these people are wrong. Unix has some features that make security isolation easier in a multi-user context, but most people don't use their Macs that way. Vulnerability density is probably just as bad in OSX, if not worse, simply because few people are researching it. This author is also "ill-informed."

RE: A Little Knowledge of Security Can Be a Dangerous Thing


 
 
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