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Mac versus Windows hacks? - josntme - 12-19-2007

What do you make of this? http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=758


Re: Mac versus Windows hacks? - JoeH - 12-19-2007

Don't know the author or the "impartial" company Secunia, but 234 minor flaws listed as "highly critical"? Most are actually in applications, not the OS. Like to see a similar count for Windows plus applications. Someone is reaching far up his posterior to pull that blog entry off.


Re: Mac versus Windows hacks? - jdc - 12-19-2007

when you need more hits, add "mac" or "apple" to your title


Re: Mac versus Windows hacks? - Ted King - 12-19-2007

The author of the article does exactly what the people he cites, Secunia, say should not be done with their statistics:

http://secunia.com/product/96/?task=statistics

"PLEASE NOTE: The statistics provided should NOT be used to compare the overall security of products against one another."

This is via a Slashdot discussion of the article:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/12/18/170241.shtml