BritPat
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Apple's excellent record on security is one of its advantages over other companies.
Actually, Macs have almost no protection against viruses, etc. compared to pc's. They're wildly vulnerable. The only reason they've seemed "safe" is that MacOS has been such a small segment of the market (and so concentrated in populations like students and artists) that the bad guys haven't bothered targeting them. That's starting to change, alas. And on the mobile front, there's been plenty of press about how iPhones & iPads have made it easy for app developers to access pretty much every piece of info a user has.
Actually, that's incorrect, but I'm not going to take this further off-topic. My initial response was in keeping with the thread, and is accurate, but going further with this would just be too far off topic.
"You're wrong, now let's close the topic"? OK, back atcha.
I wonder if any teams would consider employing a computer whizz-kid to hack into one of these things?
Apple's excellent record on security is one of its advantages over other companies.
Apple has consistently been at the very top of the discovered vulnerabilities for non-mobile devices. Number one and number two. And no, I can't send a link because the report is an annual hard copy.
Update: I found a couple links that refer to the reports I have seen:
Apple Tops Secunia Vulnerability Ranking | Security Generation
IBM study ranks Mac as most vulernable OS | MacNN
They aren't well exploited vulnerabilities because of their smaller enterprise footprint, but the iOS devices are changing those rules.
Again, I'm not getting into this, because I deal with the Apple/Windows/Linux crap often enough and it's off topic. However, your own links show it to be largely the 3rd party apps on one link and a misleading article on the other. As a matter of fact, the big recent Mac panic was found to actually be a Java issue, and not a Mac issue.
Also, the dueling claims thing is pretty easy to do...
Apple iOS: Why it's the most secure OS, period | Mobile Technology - InfoWorld
which is another reason I didn't bother getting into this.