Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.
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Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.
That's a beautiful troll on Gates part, and he gets bonus points for trolling on a national scale.
Even if what he said were factually true, I would still feel more "secure" on my Mac, as what ultimately matters to me is the risk: the probability of my computer being exploited.
Charlie - 2nd February 2007 19:03 - #
Wow. I had to double check to make sure this wasn't some "Fake Steve" style spoof.
Is he referring to MOAB? Given the heavy reliance on third-party apps for those exploits, I imagine it would be about 1000 times easier to to a Month of Vista Bugs given the same sensationalist methodology and the much larger field of third-party apps and drivers.
Didnt you already post one Vista bug this month? So, yeah. Its easy.
Im referring to the voice control thing.
nogg3r5 - 4th February 2007 12:21 - #
I simply don't think Mr. Gates' comment is accurate.
I would be the last person to downplay what was found by the MoAB. I think some of the Mac "fanboy" sites - Daring Fireball, for example - have been doing just that; and I think they do a very great disservice to OS X users. There *are* problems - some of them bad and some symptomatic of poor attitudes and wrong focuses at Apple. Security is not a PR matter, and Apple should understand that. Stooges take note.
However, I can't see that every day there was what Mr. Gates calls a "total" exploit. For example, being alerted to what malformed disk images can do is a chastening experience all right. I hope - I really hope - Apple was paying attention to that and is re-considering this whole area.
However, since I do not allow Safari to auto-open random internet-enabled disk images - and remember that doing so is the default (so no free pass for Apple on this one) - I can't see that I am, as Mr. Gates might put it, it total danger of a total takeover from a total exploit totally from malformed disk images.
The truth is somewhere between "THE SKY IS FALLING" and "nothing to see here move along". Gates has no disinterested concern for the truth.
Nick - 4th February 2007 14:43 - #
Maybe BillG's running Ubuntu Vista...
http://www.degredo.net/