Up to a point. Even peaceful revolution is possible against people with guns. Ask Gandhi.
It all depends on how many people you have behind you and how much they are willing to give.
Is either OS secure? Depends on what you mean by secure. Absolutely secure? No, that's not possible. Good phsyical security doesn't do it. An airgap from any network doesn't do it. Even if you encased a computer in concrete, glass, steel, and another layer of concrete, then sunk it to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, it wouldn't be secure. Someone who wanted it badly enough, and had the financial resources needed, could find it, recover it, un-encase it, and get it working - either fully, or at least enough to extract some data. lol this reminds me of one of my MCP course tutors, telling us about HDD security. He said he did a consulting job for HM Customs and Excise and he asked one of the guys there what they did when they wanted to stop people from getting at data on a HDD. The answer was that first they shoved it through a bloody great big magnet, then took it outside and smashed it around a bit with a sledgehammer - and when they wanted to be really certain, they then put it through a medical grade incinerator.
That's a little bit drastic to use as a method for preventing remote code executions though.
Re: the G4, that's seriously against procedure (yes I work for their tech support). They obviously need admin access but not giving you the password after fixing it is something they ought to be smacked for.
Of course if you have your OS X disks then you can sort it yourself...
yay for SAP! I never use it directly but it controls pretty much everything I do in my support job. One thing I'd like to know is why on earth I get mails saying they have to take it offline every single weekend - does it need that much maintenance? Why god, why?
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Up to a point. Even peaceful revolution is possible against people with guns. Ask Gandhi. It all depends on how many people you have behind you and how much they are willing to give.
Re: the G4, that's seriously against procedure (yes I work for their tech support). They obviously need admin access but not giving you the password after fixing it is something they ought to be smacked for. Of course if you have your OS X disks then you can sort it yourself...
yay for SAP! I never use it directly but it controls pretty much everything I do in my support job. One thing I'd like to know is why on earth I get mails saying they have to take it offline every single weekend - does it need that much maintenance? Why god, why?