By Seb Janacek
Published: Friday 03 June 2005
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Name
Andrew Rice
Location
UK
Occupation
Security Consultant
Comment
MAC's not so secure.
I've found MAC OSX systems amongst the easiest to hack into especially if they have OS9 compatability installed. Whilst windows is not a secure environment it has been improving. Yes it is more targetted but that doesn't mean it's less secure.
You have to separate MACs from Linux as if they were pure Linux based and intelligently configured then they would be more secure than a non intelligently built Windows or Linux system.
One last point, it costs more to keep secure as the updates are hellishy expensive so a lot of people don't bother even I'm on a 10.2 version but don't trust anything sensitive to it because of this and won't be upgrading.
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