Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
aye, iMac.
You know, there’s nothing that makes a Mac intrinsically safe from hacks. Sure, it’s Unix based, but that only means there are more tools available to make it more secure (not surprising since Unix has a ~20 year head start on Windows). I’d be willing to bet that the average Mac is potentially just as vulnerable as the average Windows machine. The only difference in actual vulnerabilities comes from the increased toolset available to those who want to attack windows machines. Get enough Macs online, or use them in a high-value system, and you’ll see the number of attacks and viruses for Macs skyrocket.
Maybe so, but even then, security through obscurity is still security
Even without obscurity, Macs come out of the box better set up for security than does Windows.
And that counts for a lot, given the typical user’s predilection for digging down deep inside to make things work better.