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Weblog:   Mac's New Slogan: Viruses for the Rest of Us
Subject:   re: mac os x security
Date:   2005-03-22 22:05:57
From:   unixguy3409
What Symantec, this author and it seems everyone else seems to ignore is that the foundation for OS X is BSD Unix which is considered by most security experts/firms (Symantec excepted) to be one of the most secure operating systems in the world. OpenBSD is considered even more secure as it has security as it's main design goal. In short, OpenBSD is BSD pre-configured to be as secure as possible. The point of all this is to say that much research has been done on os security and BSD(OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/OS X) has consistently fared well when subjected to a large series of security attacks.
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  • re: mac os x security
    2005-03-23 04:46:32  jwenting [Reply | View]

    BSD is POTENTIALLY secure (with emphasis on potentially).
    Out of the box it's in fact worse than Windows out of the box.
    And who's to say that Apple did their job when building Mac OS/X out of it? After all they're smug in their knowledge that Macs aren't targeted by virus authors and that BSD is so secure so why bother?
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