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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? 2004-07-23
Anonymous
With no ports open a firewall is pointless as there is nothing for it to block, and as soon as any port is opened the firewall is automatically activated. Unlike Windows the firewall is open source ipfw as used in FreeBSD. The core system is also open source and can be freely examined, as the author...

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