This has been driving me NUTS lately.

[demented-pants.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one noticing a trend lately wherein people everywhere seem to be going, "Oh, windows is so insecure and awful, I'll switch to Macs, they're better," without having a damn clue what they're talking about? When pressed, sure, they might say, "Macs don't get viruses," which is (of course) a fallacy, or, "Windows crashes all the time..."

Regardless, they switch to macs and then they're totally illiterate and I have to help them figure out wtf they're doing. And then when everything doesn't JUST WORK ZOMG like they're expecting it to, it's somehow *still* Windows' fault, somehow.

Ugh. I'm not advocating for one above the other. I use Mac, Windows, and Linux all three, though I have a definite preference for Windows, personally. Use what works for you.

But for fuck's sake can we all have a little bit less of that annoying superiority?

Comments

[bothunter.livejournal.com]

Does nobody remember this?

http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/

Search the page for "remote arbitrary code execution". Combine one of those with a "privilege escalation" bug and you've got a full root remote exploit.

Virus writers go for the biggest target. Most of the remote exploits were Apple products which also run under Windows. So, they spent most of their time exploiting the windows variants to attack the 85%+ Windows market share instead of Apple's 10%.

Bottom line: All platforms have bugs, many of which are security vulnerabilities. Hackers typically go for the big targets. At one time this was Unix, currently it is Windows. If MacOS gains enough market share, it will be next.

[adamjaskie.livejournal.com]

Like I said; possible. Very few have ever existed. The ones that have, haven't done much.

And that's an IF. A "maybe, in the future, if..." I really don't care about. We're talking about the here and now.