Soleron on 22 May 2009
| spacecowgoesmoo said: ~90% of marketshare is Windows. ~10 is Mac. The reason that OSX is safe is because most hackers would rather attack for the 90% marketshare instead of the 10%. |
Agree partially. Mac OS X's Unix foundation also increases security beyond that, although Apple seem determined to weaken this (e.g. maintaining seperate Java runtime from Sun's voluntarily and then not patching it with security updates).
And that argument doesn't apply at all to faithful Unix-likes such as Linux. They may have a smaller marketshare but they are at least as secure as Windows otherwise many servers would have been hacked as they are too valuable for hackers to ignore otherwise.
