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Mac Security: Deal Or No Deal?
True of false: when you use the Mac platform, you never have to worry about security again. At the risk of offending all the Mac zealots out there, the answer is a resounding false.True of false: when you use the Mac platform, you never have to worry about security again.
At the risk of offending all the Mac zealots out there, the answer is a resounding false.That's not to say the Mac isn't inherently secure, but rather there are many factors - applications vulnerabilities, user/operator ignorance, malicious code on the web - that are outside your control and at times outside the control of any operating system.
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Today's featured review, from our resident Mac expert John Welch, sums up the issue nicely with one example of a potential vulnerability: "Don't assume that just because the base operating system is essentially secure that everything else that ships with the operating system is as secure. There are quite a few Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server boxes that get cracked because of poorly configured PHP/Perl/Web/Database applications."
Welch paints a clear picture of the areas where lack of knowledge and outside threats can still cause lots of problems in the Mac environment. And no - neither he nor I are claiming that this makes the Mac insecure. Only that you still need to understand where the various threats lie. Agree? Disagree? State your case.
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