filePro and Vista

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>Confusious (Walter Vaughan) say:
...
>> All I want for christmas is a bunch of Mac Mini's with 3 Ghz dual core
>> CPU's...
>
>Don't think Apple's tantamount to automatic immunity.  They've been
>infected before, and due to the BSD underpinnings of OS/X, it's now a
>larger target because the underlying system is much better and more widely
>understood compared to their proprietary Mac OS Systems 6-9.  Security
>forecasts indicate a probability of steadily rising attacks in future.  As
>the adoption curve rises, so will the potential security exposure.

``Security forcasts'' are to be taken with a large grain of salt
considering that many of them are made by organizations that have
a vested interest in Microsoft's insecurity, and spread FUD to
get people to buy useless products for OS X.  Here's an
interesting article I saw recently on the subject.

	http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1832223&from=rss

>I wouldn't get too cocky about running OS/X.  Nothing is immune.  Nothing.
>Better, yes.  Perfect, no.

That's certainly true, but the usual FUD arguments ignore the
fundamental security issues with Windows that aren't generally
available in *NIX based systems which have been designed for
multi-user network operations from day one while Windows was
originally a program loader for non-networked hobby machines.
Remember that Unix was originally developed by Bell Labs, and the
phone companies have always had issues with people attempting to
crack into their systems.

There's also a major problem with software folks who don't have a
clue about running in multi-user environment where ownership,
file locking, and concurrency are major issues.  Many Windows
programs require the user to run with Administrator priviledges
because the authors couldn't bother to do it right.  Of course
this isn't unique to Windows as I've seen far too many accounting
programs for *nix that require 777 permissions on everything to
work properly.

BTW:  I'm typing this from a PowerPC Mac Mini, and my fresh
laptop is a 15in PowerBook which replaces my 7+ year old ThinkPad
600 which has run many versions of Linux over its lifetime.

Bill
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