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[Discuss] Most Dangerous Operating System



On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 02:55:34PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> I used to describe Macintosh as the best Unix desktop in the world.
> As of today I describe Macintosh as the most dangerous operating
> system in the world.  It's not the recent, highly-publicized flaws
> in it.  Rather, it's the philosophies, the carelessness and
> ignorance, that permitted them to occur in the first place.
> Security holes can be fixed, but bad design is forever.

So to what do you attribute the decades-long constant stream of
serious security flaws in Microsoft's offerings?  I guess it's not
"the philosophies, the carelessness and ignorance, that permitted them
to occur in the first place."  Seems to me Apple's got a long way to
go to catch up to MSFT in that regard...

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Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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