Linked by Bill Leeper on Tue 7th Feb 2006 23:55 UTC
"Assuming that 'because it's a Mac, it's safe' is no longer wise" is probably one of this book's most important themes. It has been my experience that too many Mac users "know" that OS X is secure and therefore they have nothing to worry about. This book shows just how wrong that attitude is.
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2006-02-01
My problem with articles like these that are by so called "Professionals" that own websites and talking about Mac OS X security.
And because it's a reasonably big site, the average joe will believe it.
They will point out a flaw or exploit and fail to mention that this flaw or exploit on a service needs to first be enabled.
The large majority (I'm not saying all, but most of them) are flaws/exploits that are on services that are disabled by default.
Either that or the exploit needs physical access to the machine.
You will always get problems with an OS, it's a given, there's always someone out there a little smarter that will find a weird and wonderful away around it.
The thing that does matter, is how easily, and how quickly the fixes/patches/updates are.
I would much rather have the Software Update program jump a few times and easily install it, then waiting months for Windows to fix it, because it's not within their scheduled time slot to patch it.
That said, there needs to be more teaching into what to do and what not to do in General, not something specific to the OS.
I mean, regardless of the OS, you shouldn't open attachments without some type of scan or check. Simple things like these prevent a lot of problems, and people need to taught the basics of security.
Would be a lot more useful teaching kids about Security in school than how to use a Word processor.
Edited 2006-02-08 05:39