Are macs more insecure than Windows / GNU/Linux?

Apr 18, 2009, 12:01 (6 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Edmundo Carmona)

[ Thanks to Edmundo for this link. ]

"However, Macs are just another closed platform. It can't be verified to be secure by any third party, so perhaps it really is that they be more insecure than Güindous... given that there's no source code to review, I can't really tell (not that I would check the code, anyway).

"How much DRM code is in OSX these days? Does it spy its users "a la güindous"? Does anybody know? No source code, so nobody can't really tell."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• On open source vs. disclosed source voting systems(Apr 17, 2009)
• Your Distro is Insecure: Ubuntu(Apr 15, 2009)
• Worm targets Linux routers(Mar 27, 2009)
• Insecure Candidates: Chrome Wins Hacking Contest(Mar 24, 2009)
• 10 cool things you can do with Linux and not with windows(Feb 23, 2009)
• Security researcher Kaminsky pushes DNS patching(Feb 23, 2009)
• Editor's Note: Linux and FOSS are Good, and Windows is Sucky, and the World is Mad(Feb 14, 2009)
• How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure?(Feb 13, 2009)
• OpenSSH: The Poor Man's SOCKS Proxy(Jan 22, 2009)
• It's time to start issuing PC licenses(Jan 17, 2009)