Yes... when Mr. Lemos wrote, quoting Dan Kaminsky, "The reality is that security work does comes from a trial by fire," he said. "And Apple really has not had that experience. It had not had the experience from some 20 years that Unix had and that Linux has absorbed. It has not had the experience that Microsoft had with its summer of worms."

... He failed to mention that Microsoft created its own dilemma when it incorporated elements of the stolen PROMIS technology into its source code ? its, er, TOP SECRET source code.

The fact remains that for two decades Billy included such niceties as the parasite CommonName with OEM/bundled Windows installation media so that poor and middle class users of Windows ? those who were most likely to buy pre-installed systems and use them without protection... would supply a never-ending plethora of salable information to the cyber mafia.

Countless millions of pre-installed Windows systems are still infected with unca Billy's money-rakers.

What about Apple's track record? Doesn't its lack of a "trial by fire" signify that the overall character and integrity of Mr. Jobs and his staff are above reproach?

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