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Subject: Re: [OT] OS security design (was: elder parent-proofing a computer)
From: Kris Kirby <kris () catonic ! us>
Date: 2012-06-25 18:32:56
Message-ID: alpine.BSF.2.00.1206251331500.5591 () spectre ! catonic ! us
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, Ben Scott wrote:
> This is really rather off-topic, but as a professional sysadmin, I
> feel security is a critical topic worth addressing.
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Just wait until the Mac gets seriously targeted....
> >
> > Oh please, not this FUD. Not on inet-access. Please! Can't I count
> > on THIS group to have more sense than this?
> >
> > The Mac OS is inherently more secure ...
>
> The security design of the OS has little to nothing to do with
> almost all of the security attacks being perpetrated today. In
> particular, it doesn't matter what the OS does if the user tells it to
> allow the attack. Further, keeping the OS secured is only a means to
> an end. If the attacks can operate entirely under the privileges of
> the user, it doesn't really matter what the OS is.
>
> Now that the Mac has really started to succeed again, attackers are
> starting to attack that platform again. Mac malware in the wild was
> basically zero even as recently as a year ago. Now there are at least
> a few active threats. That's the price of success -- Apple is now a
> target worth looking at.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/258183/apple_quietly_pulls_claims_of_virus_immunity.html#tk.rss_news
I, too, am a UN*X admin. And I am not an alarmist by nature. This
Koolaid has a strange aftertaste.
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