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

From: Steve Taylor (steve_at_astronomycentre.org.uk)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 23:12:19 +0000

Chris L Peterson wrote:
> Yes, there is something fundamentally wrong. The OS has been in the past
> (and still is to some extent) misconfigured in its default state. All
> I'm saying is that this says nothing about the OS security itself.

I wouldn't say that Windows viruses explot mis-configured systems. They
exploit bugs in the OS which are present because the security model is
flawed. Too many things have access to rings in the OS that they don't
need, and they are fundemental to the architecture, not the configuration.

Steve

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