Thoughts 24 Aug 2007 06:11 pm
Mac OSX
It’s been over 10 months since a proof of concept was issued for a Java exploit and everybody but Apple has patched it.
This comment to a blog on the subject is the apparent attitude of most Mac users:
We’ll be just fine…. Thank you!
If you watch the commercials you’ll see that a Mac never gets sick.
The first worm / virus aimed specifically at Mac OSX was found in the wild somewhere around February ‘06.
Now there are a number of them and nobody counts the browser specific problems.
If Macs are so secure, why has Apple patched in the neighborhood of 100 vulnerabilities in the last year?
This is not intended to be an attack on OSX, I happen to like BSD, but a warning.
Apple, with the incessant bragging about being untouchable, has made themselves a target.
I worry a little about Mac, after all, their loudest non-advertising brag is that you can install windows.