A pair of security researchers has picked January 2007 as the starting point for a month-long project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple's OS X or in Apple applications that run on top of it. The 'Month of Apple Bugs' project, currently slated to begin on Jan. 1, is being orchestrated in part by a security researcher who asked to be identified only by his online alias 'LMH'. This is the same researcher who in November ran the 'Month of Kernel Bugs' project. LMH's partner in this project is Kevin Finisterre, a researcher who has reported numerous bugs to Apple over the past few years. As with the kernel bugs project, Apple will be given no advance notice with the Month of Apple bugs, LMH said.
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Member since:2005-07-06
"""It's often been said that..."""
Note how this post drops into passive tense. That is often a good indication that something unverifiable is about to be presented.
"""Now we're seeing (potentially) that those problems are there, they just aren't being found and/or taken advantage of. Yet."""
Yep.
See how he is trying to equate "any security vulnerabilities at all" with the level of vulnerability that Windows "enjoys" today?
Why did you spend so much time doing armchair psycho-analysis on my post and then just agree with it? !? Are you just trying to sound like you have a clue, because you really just come across as a wanker.
Let me go a little slower, so you can keep up.
1) Apple market share is on the rise. That is verifiable.
2) Bugs and flaws are *being found* OSX are on the rise. That is also verifiable.
At no point did I equate the number of flaws in Windows to the number of flaws in OSX. My assertion is simply that the bugs in OSX were always there (as is the case with any sufficiently complex piece of software) and are being *found* at a greater rate due to the increased marketshare. Pretty much what Windows fanboys claim.
OSX fanboys, on the other hand, claim (present tense, just for you) that the low number of security flaws are based solely on the superior software from Apple, which doesn't seem to be the case.
I expect that as (if?) OSX marketshare increases, that the number of discovered flaws will also increase, at a roughly similar rate (future tense).
What does that mean? Well, if the correlation holds true, then it means the Windows fanboys were right and the OSX fanboys were wrong. And that, I imagine, annoys the OSX fanboys immensely.
The next few years will be interesting.
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Fixed a small typo. I don't want to get psycho-analyzed on my spelling.
Edited 2006-12-20 23:00
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2005-07-24
"""It's often been said that..."""
Note how this post drops into passive tense. That is often a good indication that something unverifiable is about to be presented.
"""Now we're seeing (potentially) that those problems are there, they just aren't being found and/or taken advantage of. Yet."""
Yep.
See how he is trying to equate "any security vulnerabilities at all" with the level of vulnerability that Windows "enjoys" today?
I don't disagree that market share makes a piece of software a more viable target. I do very much agree that you can claim that any OS would have Windows' problems if they had that market share.
That said, we'd all of us be better off in a world where 25% of people used Windows, 25% Linux/*BSD, 25% MacOSX, and 25% something else. In particular, the Windows users would benefit.
If I were a Windows user, I would either be looking for something else for myself, or be encouraging others to use something else.
Edited 2006-12-20 20:32