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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
Anonymous
While I agree with you that the Mac OS isn't "the promised land" I want to point out a few things why this OS IS more secure than Windows. First, the Mac OS has most of the vulnerable TCP ports turned off by default, Microsoft defaults theirs to on when you turn it on. Second, Windows has more vu...

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