[Dr.Michael]

Maybe you have read about the issue of Dan Geer, a security expert who published his opinion that Microsoft monoculture is dangerous and lost his job because of this.

On a photo you can see that he uses a Powerbook.

look here for story and photo at cnn.com

A better photo at the german yahoo site

After postings in several places that James Gosling and many sun employees are mac users this again supports my opinion that real professionals use macs.

But its always hard to convince linux die hards because they are completely focused on M$. And the mac has a bad reputation as a computer for technically disabled users :0).

[Fozz_uk]

Originally posted by Dr.Michael:
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But its always hard to convince linux die hards because they are completely focused on M$. </SNIP>

Er...?

[fizzlemynizzle]

Originally posted by Dr.Michael:
Maybe you have read about the issue of Dan Geer, a security expert who published his opinion that Microsoft monoculture is dangerous and lost his job because of this.

On a photo you can see that he uses a Powerbook.

look here for story and photo at cnn.com

A better photo at the german yahoo site

After postings in several places that James Gosling and many sun employees are mac users this again supports my opinion that real professionals use macs.

Apple laptops are standard issue at the company (@Stake) that this guy was fired from. @Stake did an audit at my company and one of the guys used an iBook. He was not happy with the quality of it, btw.

[chrisutley]

How many Pro users would be pleased with an iBook as their only machine?

[fizzlemynizzle]

I don't know if it was his only machine, but it's what he had during the week he was on-site. He had no complaints about the OS, just hardware problems with the iBook.

My point is that don't read too much into the fact that the guy in the articel uses a Mac. It makes sense to use a non-Windows machine when auditing Windows environments, that way you don't have to worry about your own gear getting infected on unknown networks. That just says Windows has a lot of security problems, and we already know that. All the security experts I know use combinations of Linux and FreeBSD/OpenBSD for the serious stuff.

[Dr.Michael]

Originally posted by Fozz_uk:
Er...?

:o)
You are right. That's not clear.
I meant the linux users I know only see Windows as their competition and alternative. Never Mac OS.