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Apple Submits Mac OS X For Security Evaluation

Posted by pudge on from the something-about-being-powered-off-and-buried-underground dept.

ranger8x writes "Apple has submitted Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server to the U.S. government's National Information Assurance Partnership to evaluate various security features. It seems Apple is looking for some respect by the government, and to 'get more exposure.'"

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  1. gov't: a good market for apple by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Gov't could be a good market for apple,
    particularly now that they use OS X
    Gov't workers are getting tired of code red, nimda, etc, which hilite how insecure Windows is when not properly configured.
    Even though it would require new hardware, OS X has an advantage over linux due to native MS Office support, as well as more commercial applications.

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    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  2. Can it match up to Windows? by Offwhite98 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hah!

    Well, I for one would prefer to run an enterprise system on top of a MacOS X Server with XServe than on top a Dell with Windows 2000. My day job has me on Windows all the time but on my own time I use an iBook with MacOS X and a FreeBSD server on a PC. From what I have seen with MacOS X security, I think Apple will get great marks.

    And hopefully they will show they do not need some Palladium system to secure their OS. That is just silliness by Microsoft. They seem to be blaming the hardware for the OS being so insecure all this time.

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  3. Re:What OS X needs for better security by softsign · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree 100%. A well-behaved OS X app should be self-contained, write its prefs to ~/Library/Preferences, etc, etc...

    I think the reason IE doesn't do this is laziness on the part of the developers... It's an app ported (carbonized) from OS 9. OS 9 apps had free reign to run roughshod over the directory tree. It was (and is) bad practice, but there was nothing stopping you. They just haven't bothered to make it self-contained for whatever reason.