I hate when people don't separate applications from an OS. If you are going to talk about OS security, then talk about it, but don't water it down by mentioning applications running on it. Anyone can write an insecure app, but that has nothing to do with the OS, even if it ships with it.

BTW, I'm a happily unhacked virus-free mac user and I've been using the system for 8 years. I don't live in a fantasy world, I just keep up with security updates and maintain a strong firewall (not the apple default one either), among other security measure.

What I like about Apple is that they actually release security updates on a regular basis unlike M$. Is M$ ever going to fix their browser vulnerabilities? I would be so annoyed if I was a Windows user.

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