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Re:Pwn2Own winner says Macs are more safe, though less secure by tptacek on Friday March 27, 2009 @09:16PM (#536006)
My partner Dave made this point in 2006; it's one of our more popular posts, and got good comments:

http://www.matasano.com/log/644/safety-vs-security-2/

OS X is a suburb. Win32 is downtown Manhattan. You might prefer the suburbs, but remember: neighborhoods change.

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Re:Pwn2Own winner says Macs are more safe, though less secure by tptacek on Friday March 27, 2009 @10:55PM (#536114)
What part of the Mac is analogous to the shiny security system? It's Win32 that has all the sensors and alarm circuits these days.
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Re:Pwn2Own winner says Macs are more safe, though less secure by Zev on Friday March 27, 2009 @11:19PM (#536133)
Shiny, from the users perspective. Security-wise, I thought that OS X came with its firewall (which is really just ipfw) enabled.

Googling just now corrected me, so I deleted my comment as it was inaccurate and a poor analogy. Sorry about that.

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