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How to Save Mac OS X From Malware
eXchange writes "Well-known hacker Dino Dai Zovi has written an article at ZDNet discussing last week's discovery of a critical threat to Mac OS X, and another announcement of a Trojan horse exploiting this discovery. He suggests that Snow Leopard, or Mac OS X 10.6, should integrate more robust means of preventing malware attacks. Some of the suggestions he has include mandatory code-signing for kernel extensions (so only certified kernel extensions can run), sandbox policies for Safari, Mail, and third-party applications (so these applications cannot do anything to the system), and some lower-level changes, such as hardware-enforced Non-eXecutable memory and address space layout randomization."
Having knowledge is having additional responsibility. It took me quite a while to arrive at that conclusion, but if people can claim they didn't know or don't understand something, they are therefore not responsible for it. This goes well beyond knowing about computers and into all facets of life. For me, knowledge has always been important and desirable, so it was really hard to understand why the majority of people don't want any. But I believe I've hit upon the precise essence of why people don't want to know anything... they don't want it to be their fault.