| Kenoid said: @scottie, Hey, what you're dealing with is with an experience career hacker, and not some ordinary guy who is a microsoft fanboy. And even beginner hackers hack the mac os's easily, the hacking contest every year held in Vancouver also resulted in the Apple OS being hacked first They are talking about all of apple products, iphones getting jailbreaked, eventually losses aren't posted but we all know pirated jailbroken iphones are being sold throughout Mainland China |
I can think of no answer to this that wasn't already covered in my post. Please re read it carefully and that will give you my response.
Actually, maybe more examples can help, who knows??
I would like you to pick which of the following is the more secure in each situation
A well locked bankvault which people know to contain billions or a fairly poorly locked bankvault which people know to contain very little money
A well built castle defending a vital shipping point, or a poorly built one guarding an obscure hilltop
A PC or a Mac
If you answered the first to all of them, then don't bother responding because this conversation is at an end
If you answered the second to all of them then congratulations!
If you answered inconsistently, then don't bother responding either
So infact when you claimed that "just because no one cared as much about you to hack your Mac does not mean you are secure." You were incorrect, you simply didn't know what secure meant. Now you do :)
I would also like to point out that his comparison is based on the assumption that all people using computers know what they're doing - fair enough for hackers, or even us, but not for 90% of the population. Windows users use IE instead of Safari or FF, Adobe reader instead of Apple's infinitely better and more secure Preview, and with Vista at least the UAC was over the top to the extent that the vast majority of people just clicked allow to everything without reading
