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Apple tried to claim Apple PCs were special, but it didn't remove the single biggest hazard to any claim of security. PC means personal computer, which means a
by mkr-hn 14y ago
Apple tried to claim Apple PCs were special, but it didn't remove the single biggest hazard to any claim of security.
PC means personal computer, which means a system owned by millions of people without the technical skill to assess whether or not that attachment (whether it's birthday_card.dmg or birthday_card.exe) really came from grandma.
All PCs are vulnerable to users. I'm glad Apple figured it out a few years sooner than Microsoft did.
- slurgfest 14y agoHow do you figure that 'Apple figured it out a few years sooner than Microsoft did'? I don't endorse Windows. But for all Windows' brokenness, Microsoft has not claimed invulnerability to viruses and has put a significant amount of effort into improving security from XP to today. The main reason it has had more trouble with malware is that it has been a much more popular platform, meaning that is where all the victims are.
- mkr-hn 14y agoMicrosoft didn't make the same claims, but they showed the same lax attitude toward security for years. Apple only needed to see a few malware outbreaks to come to terms with reality.
- josephcooney 14y ago>> I'm glad Apple figured it out a few years sooner than Microsoft did. When exactly are you claiming that Apple "figured it out"? Because Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative kicked off in 2002 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing#Microsoft_and_Trustworthy_Computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing#Microsoft... From what I've seen inside of MS security trumps everything else. Want to change an API? You can't...unless it has a security issue in which case go right ahead.
- mkr-hn 14y agoApple took the claim down less than a year after a big malware outbreak. 2002 is quite a few years after malware authors started targeting Windows.