Re: Macs in Astronomy Updated; Canon 20D under Mac & Windows

From: Tim Killian (TJK_at_notmyrealemail.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:20:41 -0700

Now you're blowing smoke. For anything "malicious" to install and run
under OS X , the user has to enter an admin password and approve the
request. Contrast that with XP where simply opening an attachment can
run the bad guy's code in a background task the user never sees.

And to claim NT is a secure "kernel" is equally specious. NT was copped
from code written at DEC long before the advent of large, scalable
networks. Most of the security features are patched in -- that it works
at all is the true miracle.

> Chris L Peterson wrote:

> But it is trivial to write a program for OS X that is malicious,
> and does something simple like remail itself to addresses found on your
> system. If you'd like, I will write one and send it to you. I will
> require you to open the attachment at execute it (the same thing that
> the vast majority of Windows malware requires).

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