Re: Apple Computer sides with Satan

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 21:10:29 GMT, "David Nakamoto"
<res07oeg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>My experience with early Unix was that the computer was not that secure. It
>might have changed in the 10 years I've last worked on a Unix system, but that's
>what I remembered.

Unix never used to have as fine a level of control over user
permissions as some other systems, but I suspect improvements have
been made since then.

But I suspect the original poster was referring to security bugs
rather than the security system itself. Yes, there have been security
bugs found in various flavors of Unix, but they've mostly been patched
quickly and haven't, except one of the first high-profile ones, led to
the sort of endemic worming/zombiing/trojaning one expects from
Windows systems today.


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