Re: The Myth of the secure Mac

Oxford wrote: 
TheLetterK <theletterk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


You clearly don't understand security do you... If OSX isn't crackable now, it will be LESS likely tomorrow,

Can you prove this?


yes, still uncracked. 70.57.60.153 
How does this prove anything?



the next day or10 years from now. Apple actually WORKS on security,

And adds features too. My point was made readily obvious by the Dashboard vulnerability when 10.4 was released. As the complexity of a system increases, so does the chance of oversight.


yeah, like a clean room bluetooth exploit, which really scared everyone! oh, no, some hacker broken into my house and now my keyboard won't work! yikes! the dashboard error was benign.
But very indicitive of the issue I speak of. What if next time, it is not a vulnerability allowing for malicious widgets, but instead a vulnerability allowing arbritrary code execution?



it's not an afterthought like MS treats it... Yes, if Apple keeps innovating but stops being security focused, you'd have a point, but if Apple stopped innovating and stopped enhancing security, OSX in its current state would be a rock solid OS, today, tomorrow and 10 years from now.

Hardly. New exploits would continue to pop up like they have been since OS X was released.


but NONE have occurred in the wild, isn't that innnnnteresting... they are concepts, nothing more...
Vulnerabilities are vulnerabilities--just because OS X is too rare for any malicious cracker to give a damn about does not make it secure.



Please THINK before you post.

Perhaps you should follow your own advice?


I do, you clearly don't understand OSX security, you are explaining things like this is Windows, not an Apple designed Unix.
No, I'm explaining this like it's a *nix (what OS X is). It is, after all, what I am most familiar with.
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