"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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Member since:2005-07-06
Name calling aside your point is valid. But mac users security attitudes are no worse than that of the typical Windows user. I fix problems for Windows users frequently and most of them have absolutely no idea how insecure their system is. Out of the box a Mac is much more secure than a Windows machine. We need to educate the vast majority of computer users in security issues as that would make all our lives a lot less complicated.
Member since:2005-09-13
// Out of the box a Mac is much more secure than a Windows machine.//
That's debateable. Yesterday, I setup a new Dell Dimension. After maybe 10 minutes of running "Windows Update," the system was completely patched.
Two months ago, I setup a new Mac Mini ... took about the same amount of time, to run Software Update so that everything was patched.
And ... for the life of me ... I've setup probably 50 PC's in the last three years, and I've *never* experienced the "you-will-be-hacked-within-three-minutes-of-going-online" crap.
I'm starting to wonder how much of that is even true. Has anyone else experienced this? Just wondering.
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2005-07-06
There's a *lot* wrong with the attitudes of Mactards -- the blind assumption of OS X security is just one of them.
I exclusively use two Macs in my daily life, and yet the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field has yet to affect me.