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Keeping the OS up to date wouldn't have helped with this.
by linky123 11y ago
Keeping the OS up to date wouldn't have helped with this.
- cmurf 11y agoI know that. Overwhelmingly in most cases it does help though, probably more than anything else short of air gapping the thing.
- geofft 11y agoYou can also install another OS. Putting an Ubuntu LTS or Debian stable on it will help you way more, compared to OS X 10.9.5, than any number of other mitigation strategies. Frankly, I'm way more comfortable taking my Windows 8.1 machine to public wifi hotspots these days than my OS X 10.9 machine.
- op00to 11y ago... Unless you use Firefox.
- geofft 11y agoOh, yes, obviously use google-chrome (not even chromium; there's too much free-software-purity stuff in the Debian builds to make me feel comfortable with its security profile). At this point it didn't even occur to me you could use another browser and consider yourself secure, such is the awful world we live in.
- noondip 11y ago10.9.5 is not even up to date. There are security fixes which were not backported from OS X 10.10 Yosemite (the current release).
- cmurf 11y agoExploits, and high risk vulnerabilities are certainly being closed with security updates. That's their purpose. Major changes aren't practical for Apple, and they do everything they can to incentivize (badger) people into upgrading to the current version.