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A Six-Step Plan for Apple

Posted by michael on Friday July 9, 2004 @06:40AM from the a-man-a-plan-a-canal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Open letter from Alex Salkever to Jobs. One thing in particular strikes me: 'The latest round of attacks on Microsoft software is terrifying. If using a Mac means servers in Russia are less likely to harvest my passwords and offer my identity to the highest bidder, I think that's an offer I'd like to hear more about.' I think he's got something there."

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Re:Let's not forget... by (54)T-Dub · 2004-07-09 06:58 · Score: 5, Informative

According to these statistics Firefox's "obscurity" is disappearing quickly. We (Firefox users) currently hold 12.2% of the market, which is a 4% increase this year. Great news for us developers who are sick of IE work arounds.

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"I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance" - Isaac Asimov
Re:Let's not forget... by vondo · 2004-07-09 07:05 · Score: 5, Informative

As a user, I can install any application I want in my own directory. There are lots of malicious things a user-priviledged program could do, like send e-mails to everyone in my mozilla address book. There are also lots of things it can't do.
I'm speaking from a linux point of view; I would guess the Mac is similar.
Re:Let's not forget... by _Sprocket_ · 2004-07-09 07:22 · Score: 5, Informative

*nix systems tend to handle mutli-user environments much more gracefully. I run as a non-privilidged user on all *nix machines I touch. I tried to do the same thing in Win2K but ran in to so many hassles with it that I eventually gave up and followed the advice of more experienced Windows users - added my account to Administrators.