Re: Apple Computer sides with Satan

Hackers don't mess with Macs because they are already screwed up enough....

"Davoud" <star@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> AM:
>> And as he told me. If Mac's were as popular as PC's, they would
>> get attacked just as much.
>> These people are out after an audiance [sic], and PC's give them the
>> biggest
>> audiance possible...
>
>> Or as one of hacker friends told me, they do it for fun, and the fun is
>> geting to the most machines possible in the shortest time possible...
>
>> Mac's [sic] are no safer to PC's except for the fact there are so FEW of
>> them compared to PC's, that hackers who want attention go to
>> where the people are...
>
> This argument is worn out and specious. The U.S. Army web site was
> hacked repeatedly when it was served by Windows. The Army switched it
> to Macs, and the hacking stopped. Are you claiming that hackers lost
> interest in this site because it moved to Macs!?
>
> "Where the people are?" The people who use Macs are at NASA, FBI, the
> National Laboratories, the biotech industry, the Human Genome Project,
> the Space Telescope Science Institute, *PC* World(!), the university
> physics labs, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Fox, CNN, Comedy Central, ESPN, et
> al, The New York Times, George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic... in
> high-profile places, IOW. No one is interested in hacking any of these
> organizations? No hacker was interested in stealing a pristine digital
> copy of the latest Star Wars flick -- or LOTR? Microsoft's web sites
> and internal networks have been hacked repeatedly. Yet not a single
> hacker is interested in hacking Apple? Nonsense.
>
> Hackers go for the easy targets, and that's why they go for Windows and
> not the Mac OS.
>
> Davoud
>
> "Anyone with a Macintosh and a Sony digital camera can do anything. I
> just happen to have a few cameras and a few Macintoshes" < George Lucas
> <http://www.annapolisappleslice.com/nobody.html>
>
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