Mac Safety

I tend to keep my mouth shut when it comes to the Mac/PC debate. It's not that I don't have an opinion it's more that I know that there is nothing I can say to convince a Mac user that they are not the "chosen people" that they CAN get viruses, and if they don't take the precautions then they can run into the same issues a PC user can. I posted the following rant to Facebook on a day when I simply got sick of keeping my mouth shut.

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Macs are no safer then PC's, in fact Mac users tend to exhibit more risky behavior in their computer use then PC users as "Mac users don't get viruses"

I also find it funny that you automatically assume that I'm running Windows. The next time you turn on your Mac drop to the command line, it's a BSD/Debian kernel clone. Any security Macs have is due to the hours put into Linux/Unix development, not due to anything Mac has ever done.

So, have fun selling your soul to Apple. How are those mandatory apple-only peripherals treating you? Or the Apple only software? Or the inability to upgrade your machine, or even fix your own machine, how's that working out for you?

I wouldn't suggest my worst enemy buy a Mac. Mac users are paying big bucks to stay blind, to stay ignorant, with their collective heads buried in the sand of "Mac safety"

Good luck with that.

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Will it help? No, will the person the rant was directed at change his views, I doubt it. But every now and again it feels good to say it.