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BBC Writer Responds To Mac Security Critiques
minimunchkin writes "BBC Correspondent Bill Thompson responds to the flaming he received for an article on the vulnerabilities in Mac security. He knows that there are no Mac OS X viruses in the wild, and he doesn't believe there ever will be." From the article: "However the wider point, that there are exploitable vulnerabilities and sometimes Apple puts them there, remains. Even if I'm careful to apply updates when they are made available, some people might not and their systems could be compromised. And there is always a gap between the discovery of an issue and an available fix, a gap which could be exploited. "
It doesn't matter whether how secure the OS is, all that matters is how secure your data is. You could have an OS with more holes than a sieve, but if for one reason or another your data is less likely to be compromised then that is all that matters. Apple has unfound theoretical vulnerablities. So what, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that my word documents stay mine.
So, if I beat you and your family for 20 years because you of your race; if I denied you ownersip for 20 years because of your race, if I disenfranchised you for 20 years because of your race, you think that your child, born after those 20 years will not feel that oppression?
You think that building a society on the backs of a people and then pretending that a history, in which huge numbers of people died for your enrichment, does not exist is a moral or ethical way to live?