Re: Apple/Macs for the Army

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"PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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"PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Mayor of R'lyeh" <mayor.of.rlyeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:43:55 -0600, Jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From Forbes

http://tinyurl.com/2rojps

"Given Apple's marketing toward the young and the trendy, you wouldn't
expect the U.S. Army to be much of a customer. Lieutenant Colonel C.J.
Wallington is hoping hackers won't expect it either.

Wallington, a division chief in the Army's office of enterprise
information systems, says the military is quietly working to integrate
Macintosh computers into its systems to make them harder to hack."


more..

"...Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee who now heads the Army's
Apple program,..."

Gee I wonderwhere they're getting all their unbiased info?

"The marketing pitch that Apples are inherently more secure than PCs
is also largely a myth, contends Miller, who gained notoriety for
remotely hacking the iPhone last August. He points to data gathered by
software security firm Secunia, which showed that Apple had to patch
nearly five times as many security flaws in its software over the past
year as Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) had to patch in
Windows. Apple's Quicktime player alone, he says, was patched 34
times. "I love my Macs, but in terms of security, they're behind the
curve, compared to Windows," Miller warns."

And this is from a confessed Maccie.

"But the Army's Jonathan Broskey stands by his claims of Apple's
security: He says the high number of patches to Apple software is a
good sign..."

Nope. No delusion going on here. 8)

You were right, Jim. There was more. 8)

Not to mention this key part which follows the part Jim quoted:

"That's because fewer attacks have been designed to infiltrate Mac
computers, and adding more Macs to the military's computer mix makes it
tougher to destabilize a group of military computers with a single
attack,
Wallington says."

The move isn't because Macs are more secure but because they want to
reduce
the monoculture.

Did it ever possibly occur to you that lots of folks don't like M$

Why yes, yes it has. And you can find a number of them here in this forum.
We call them "Mac users".

So, you think Mac Users from here go out hacking Windows systems?

Why would they do that when unlike the WinBizarro's here(yourself
included) don't go to Windows NG's and bash Windows? (Not that there
aren't a couple who do, but that becomes an oddity.)


and that is also responsible for the hacking?

Which has zero bearing on the security (or not) of Windows.

Um, no. In your biased world maybe, in the real world, No.

--
Jim
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