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Re: Question about Mac OS X 10.4 Security
From: mz4ph0d () gmail com
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:57:18 +1100

At 8:21 PM +0000 1/3/06, Dave Korn wrote:
make Mac users less vulnerable to social engineering than windows users, and
as long as the attitude persists that Macs are somehow special and secure,
then uneducated Mac users will be even /more/ likely to open an executable
attachment, because they won't believe it can harm them, because they've
been told over and over how their Mac is "secure" and all those viruses are
only a problem on windows.


Sorry to spoil everyone's fun.
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382>

Maybe, just maybe, Apple are actually better (able/positioned) to
respond quickly to vulnerabilities before the exploits in-the-wild
affect more than 50 people? Who knows.


Z.
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