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Mac OS X ? Unix? Secure?
Daniel Hanson, 2004-07-21

Apple's OS X is not safer or less susceptible to vulnerabilities and viruses than other OSes, and Apple's secretive culture is bad for the security world.

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Mac OS X ? Unix? Secure? 2004-07-22
Peter
Let's see. Ports closed. Built-in firewall. No VBS. It may not be vulnerability free, but out of the box, an OS X machine is many orders of magnitude more secure than an XP machine. Even behind our corporate firewall, new PC's end up getting wormed in hours if IT doesn't spend a couple of hours...

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