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Intel Head Recommends Apple
pboulang writes "noted in this
article in the WSJ:
Pressed about security by Mr. Mossberg, Mr. Otellini had a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, "If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.""
Maybe Apple is going to use intel hardware...
It's already been speculated upon, although not confirmed by either party.
As for Linux, it's a damn good OS, very stable and you've gotta love the OSS ideal. Regular home users, however are either not willing or not able (I'm really not sure which) to use it - that's changing, but in terms of a literally plug and play solution that's out there right now you can't beat a Mac Mini.
And he doesn't use any of the wide number of free spyware prevention and automatic removal tools because?
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That's why OS X gives those files to the root account, and will only delete them if the user has administrative access and provides a password to do it.
This isn't exactly like having root access, but it's pretty close. It allows you to sudo -s and become root whenever you want, but remain a regular user the rest of the time.
If you go into the System folder and start deleting (or moving, renaming, whatever) things, you're immediately required to authenticate and become root in order to do it. No password, no deleting.
Although I'm not too familiar, I imagine that someone with root/administrator access on a Windows box can similarly screw things up with a few well-chosen deletions. Let's face it: any modern computer has to store critical files somewhere on the drive, and any decent operating system is going to have a way to let superusers modify them. If you let idiot users become root or Administrators, they're going to screw things up.
Stupidity is platform-independent, I'm afraid.
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