"The One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If anyone can solve security, whether it is with "Leopard" or in the > future, Apple definitely can. > > In my opinion, Apple performs 100% in the software field, and 90% in > the hardware field, which is due to, as I explained in my previous > messages, depending off of factories in third-world countries that are > not even Apple operated! > > But Apple has done so much with software, it is obvious that, in the > end, Apple will reach the goal. Even when personal computers are > replaced with a different technology, Apple will be on top. >
Solve security? GEESH! Mr. "The One" I must humbly submit to you that you DO NOT KNOW WHEREFORE YOU SPEAK! There is no such thing as "Solving Security". It does not exist. It could only exist in a perfect world and as you know, or at least should know, this is NOT a perfect world. My opinion is that Apple puts out a nice product for what it is. I love my MacBook, I use it to play online games and work my "second job" as an internet radio show personality. I use it when I don't want to think after a long day of thinking at work (thinking isn't my best subject after all). BUT! I do not delude myself into thinking that it is some great bastion of security or ever will be. At work, I use OpenBSD for firewalls, mail servers, (gulp) an FTP server, NIDS, time server, etc... etc... etc... Do I think that OpenBSD is the end-all-be-all of security? nope. A system, no matter how good it is, is only as good as the admin who sets it up. Some systems start out from a much better position than others, and my opinion is that OpenBSD is the very best at this, but ultimately, it has to be set up to do whatever job it needs to perform. No matter how perfect the base system is, there is no way to get around this. There is NO WAY an OS can "SOLVE SECURITY". It is as impossible as making an ice machine that "SOLVES" the problem of ice melting. It is as idiotic as the belief that the Titanic was "unsinkable". Please, do not put so much blind faith in a system that is built more for user experience than it is for security. Do not put so much blind faith in ANYTHING. Nothing is infallible, everything eventually crumbles. Even OpenBSD has had 2 remote exploits in the default install in the last 10 years. It happens, even to the very best. Nothing can, or ever will, be able to change this, it is an immutable fact. period. s
