Educated Guesswork: OS/X, Safari, ouch!

Eric reports a forehead pounder in OS/X

It really is a shame that people have to try to turn security into another battle in the interminable O/S religious wars. Some of us remember the days when the reason that UNIX would never displace VMS was the fact that UNIX was chronically insecure.

All computer systems are complex. None of the commonly used systems have been designed or implemented using formal methods. All of them rely on large chunks of bug prone C or C++ for critical functions.

There are plenty of botnets running on Linux boxes. A linux machine is much more likely to be connected to an unrestricted high speed Internet feed, it is less likely to be targeted by a rival botmaster.

Real security people should use Windows, it seems to be the only way to avoid suffering from a false sense of security.