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Transmission BitTorrent App Contained Malware (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple users were targeted in the first known Mac ransomware campaign. Hackers targeted Transmission, which is one of the most popular Mac applications used to download software, videos, music, and other data from the BitTorrent peer-to-peer information sharing network. As per this forum post (English screenshot of warning), OS X detected malware called OSX.KeRanger.A. This is the first one in the wild that is functional as it encrypts your files and seeks a ransom. An Apple representative said the company had taken steps over the weekend to prevent attacks by revoking a digital certificate from a legitimate Apple developer that enabled the rogue software to install on Macs.
(besides buying a Mac, and frankly its not a crazy concept to own the platform you are developing for)
Right. Because Macs run iOS. Of course.
In fact, even Microsoft isn't this evil. You can easily get a Windows instance in the cloud. That's the right way to do development too because it then becomes easy to have access to all of the versions of the OS that you want to target on different sizes of computer. One of the problems of modern software development is that devs treat the size of their own machines (much smaller than a server; much bigger than a normal assistant's machine) as some kind of gold standard instead of selecting the machine of the right size to test on.
Your developer's platform should be independent of the target platform.
I've been reading and commenting on slashdot since at least 1999, possibly earlier I can't really remember. I've never bothered to setup an acct and always posted AC. Good or bad IDK but I appreciated the quick comment option. Just like ads and a lot of things. It isn't essential to my existence if the ability goes away but sometimes it is nice.