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Mac OS X is a "Top Internet Security Vulnerability"
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http://www.sans.org/top20/
By consensus of its experts the SANS Institute determined that Mac OS X is one of the top 20 internet security vulnerabilities. Mac OS X is the second most important Unix security vulnerability. The only thing worse than installing Mac OS X is misconfiguring a Unix system.
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Hah! Sounds like they are saying that if you just do a default install of OS X and never patch then you are pretty vulnerable. Well duh. That's why Apple is so damn good at releasing security patches. They see holes, they plug em up. They don't wait 6 months like some companies.
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Originally Posted by ::maroma::
Hah! Sounds like they are saying that if you just do a default install of OS X and never patch then you are pretty vulnerable. Well duh. That's why Apple is so damn good at releasing security patches. They see holes, they plug em up. They don't wait 6 months like some companies.
Exactly. They may have OS X on the list, but in the description, they're quite positive toward Apple's efforts to close the holes. And of course, while OS X as a whole OS has just one point, as the smallest security vulnerability under UNIX systems, Windows has an entire category to itself, in which each vulnerability has about ten times as many links and lines of text on how to close those holes.
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Oh noooes! I'm now going to have to spend the next six months installing and configuring OpenBSD.
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I was wondering who was stealing all my good pr0n.
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Originally Posted by Rolling Bones
I was wondering who was stealing all my good pr0n.
Sorry, that was me. You should really "plug that hole".
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Originally Posted by ::maroma::
Sorry, that was me. You should really "plug that hole".
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