Sneeze in a crowd

by David Holtzman

You're much better off using a less popular operating system like Mac OS X. Why? Because it's not worth the effort to attack them with complex viruses. Macs are popular among a certain set, but they are rarely office space dense. In other words, they tend to be onesie, twosie located. One Mac guy, 5 Windows people, one Linux. Just like real diseases, viruses propagate better in tight living conditions. Mac's weakness is also their strength.

The implication is that if Macs become mainstream, they will become less attractive.

Posted on January 09, 2006

2 Comments
Security

Not really. MacOSX is inherently more secure in its design than Windows. That alone makes it significantly more impervious to malware/expoits than Windows.

I've got to disagree here -- I never supported the "Macs have smaller marketshare = they're more secure because folks aren't actively attacking them" theory.

Posted by rickf on January 9, 2006

True. The OSX is based on a true Unix operating system with a dash of Nextstep mixed in. My bigger point is not so much about the Mac in particular, but its relation to the community in general. If it was worth enough money to attack the Mac, then it would be under siege and would crack.

Posted by David Holtzman on January 12, 2006

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