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Old 10-05-2011, 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by tlgerdes View Post
Bob is on the money with his analogy.
Hi Trevor, I must humbly disagree here - we're still good friends though. When Firefox was new, it was, well new. Its failings were due to the same as anything else new - particularly in open source land - it was still in its infancy and was still developing. Of course it'll have holes in it - no matter how the developers advertise it.

This example doesn't work as an analogy when applied to Unix security as Bob's analogy was tying to imply, because the "newness" is not in the product in question - but in the attack strategies of the perpetrators. I agree that as Mac OSX grows in mainstream popularity, it will become more of a target of choice than it has been. I'm not sure where the notion that OSX is "impervious" has sprung from. Of course, the statistics show that there are far fewer successful attacks on OSX, but that is because there are fewer seats in place - not necessarily because it has better shielding (although it most certainly does).

New users to any system will always be in a compromised position until they learn and become savvy.
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