Originally posted here by White_Eskimo
hi HTRegz,

you have very good points, and I completely agree with you, but i think you are caught up in the sys admin mindset. A regular user might not even know what SSH is or does. A lot of cracking is done by confusing the user. Confusing a Mac OS system might be more difficult as you have pointed out (you can also override a static arp table in windows, which makes arp spoofing and man in the middle attacks a breeze), but of course everything can be done. I am a believer that people get caught up in the ideology that Mac OS X is completely uncrackable. Sure it might be a safer OS from certain perspectives, but people who know nothing of network security might believe that OS X is God's gift to man kind. The only thing thats more dangerous than an exposed system is a system where the user believes he/she has filled in all the breaches
I agree that SSH is definately a sys admin type thing... However that was added because of the user base that I was addressing... I'm thinking more about the requirement of a password to install something and the ability to lock the control panel... These are things that keep a regular user safer than the Windows environment does...

You're definately right through.... a user who thinks they are perfectly safe because of their OS is in a lot of trouble... I'm just trying to empahasis for the non-Mac users on AO that OS X is definately more secure and more locked down than it's Windows Equivalents...

From a parents perspective (although I'm not a parent) the built in parental controls are also a nice touch in a childs security... especially limiting who they can chat with and who they can email... but yeah... I should go to bed

Peace,
HT