Hi,


Actually, the discovery of multiple securities in Windows derives exactly from the fact that it is the largest in the marketplace. This is network economics at work. Windows is dissected most precisely because it is most accessible to dissection.


It is also insecure because it is intended to be user friendly and highly functional. Any one who works for any length of time in security knows that security and usability are diametric opposites.


Both *nix and Mac Os benefit from negative network economics. Fewer use them and therefore fewer also abuse them. They are also less accessible to the non uber geek. Mac OS is anyway just *nix with a particularly shiny bonnet and a nice mascot figurine on top.


The 'blame Bill Gates for everything' is getting to be a tired and lame sounding theme in hacker land. Nothing succeeds like success but nobody disses failures to the marketplace either - like who goes around saying 'Betamix- now there was a lame idea!'. Fame has the price of defamation.


BTW all those shiny new viruses - they just repeats of last year's ideas. Nobody has come up with the new big bad yet. They're just taking advantage of poor patching policy to prolong the half life of current viral families.


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