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Who would have thought it? One of the reasons I bought my mac was (well besides being brainwashed into buying one, but that's another story) that there were less threats on security. Obviously I was wrong. I guess it's still not as bad as Windows though. Click here for the article.
posted by Femma Ashraf at 7:44 PM
Well I am an Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science graduate so I am very interested in AI. I am also a bit of a lefty and a hippy :P Oh and recently I've been labelled as a tree hugger too. I am into mainly rock music, I am quite a deep and sentimental person. I like to help others, especially those less fortunate than us so I get quite involved in campaigning and campaign groups. Oh I'm also a bit of a geek and really love sci-fi and fantasy.
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hmm, this has been brought to the attention of the world in a very bad way by the media.
this isnt really a flaw in the mac os or even the ichat software, hence why all anti virus firms have given it their lowest risk grading and are in absolutely no hurry to bring out a solution and in reality it isnt a trojan, its malware that people have been silly enough to allow into their system such that it spreads like a trojan. i mean, who really is stupid enough to give some little random program root (administrator for windows brain washed people) access to a program they have just received off a mate in their contact list? in reality, this program is no more a flaw in the macosx software than you sticking a cd in your computer and telling it to instal the software upon it even though you just randomly got it, without asking and without being informed what it is. This is user error/stupidity over a flaw, you wouldnt put diesel in your petrol car so way do the same with your pc?
I guess there is a fault here, but its not software, the fault is a communcation and teaching one, this is where apple has been a victim of its own success. Basically when OSX was launched it was predominently taken in by mac hacks much like the previous mac os's so their was no need for apple to teach the users how to be safe with their systems. then unix hacks started shifting to the platform because of its unix background, they didnt need to be taught because they know of this kind of security flaw (the way this malware installs itself is the exact same way for unix/linux) but for the last 18 months/2 years more and more windows users are moving to the platform because it is more secure but apple has made the same mistake microsoft did with these users, it has not educated them into being safe, they have both assumed that users wouldnt install any old software into their pc and expect it to be ok because as computer scientists we see that this approach has the same consequences as life (putting just sand between bricks instead of cement means your house falls down) but because its "not real" for people they think its child proof, and someone really needs to make a quick 5 min 'for dummies" guide about this for users that can be shipped with all machines
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