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FlunkedFlank · 03-24-2005, 12:20 AM

Most importantly, OS X is far easier to secure from an engineering standpoint. For starters, a large portion of the OS is open-source, and the parts that are are typically the ones that are important as related to security. And it's not nearly as easy to run malicious code as it is on Windows, where things like ridiculous DLL conflicts, ActiveX and MS Office Macros run rampant. And of course there's no registry.

So yes, hackers will devote more attention to it if its market share increases, but I still think that it will prove more secure, proportionally speaking, for the amount of hacking attention devoted to it.

03-24-2005, 12:20 AM	#16 (permalink)
FlunkedFlank Tilted	Most importantly, OS X is far easier to secure from an engineering standpoint. For starters, a large portion of the OS is open-source, and the parts that are are typically the ones that are important as related to security. And it's not nearly as easy to run malicious code as it is on Windows, where things like ridiculous DLL conflicts, ActiveX and MS Office Macros run rampant. And of course there's no registry. So yes, hackers will devote more attention to it if its market share increases, but I still think that it will prove more secure, proportionally speaking, for the amount of hacking attention devoted to it. __________________ Jesus saves ... and Gretzky gets the rebound!