Re: OS X Security Holes Galore Go Unpatched

John Slade wrote:
"GreyCloud" <cumulus@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:_uCdnVycAMHlnUjUnZ2dnUVZ_tli4p2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
John Slade wrote:
Sooner or later the OS X users will learn. There are major security holes that remain unpatched in the latest version of OS X.

http://tinyurl.com/cge54r

Surely we will hear the usual drivel about how it's not in the wild so it doesn't matter. That is an asinine way of thinking. Sooner or later, OS X will be hit hard by a trojan or other exploit and it will be very costly to the OS X community. Consider this yet another wakeup call.

Yet how many security holes are rampant in Windows?

I give up, how many?


You give up? Yet the Geek squad is always busy having to reinstall windows due to these
security holes fouling up the users system.

Plenty and most go unfixed. And yet OS X is untouched by this Conflicker Worm and many other
malicious software out there.

First of all I know Windows has security holes. I was just informing clueless fools who think Macs have none.

Oh,... which ones now John?


Second, OK tell me how many PCs are taken down by Conflicker. Oh and you're clueless, there have been OS X boxes touched by various trojans in the wild on the Mac. But nobody pays too much attention to the Macs running OS X because they're PCs now that can run Windows.

And don't forget the back doors in windows.


And don't forget the back doors in OS X.

The rumour mill has it that Jobs wouldn't have any that.
Did Apple go to the NSA to try and fix up their security?
Microsoft did.
Yet way back in 1999 a Canadian computer scientist confronted Microsoft about the NSA keys and the back
doors and Microsoft made no comment.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html

Gee, I wonder why. :-))

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"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo.
American Government official (1863-1941).
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