Uh, millions (albeit tens or hundreds of millions), not billions. Don’t know what my brain was typing there.
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there’s nothing for non-Mac users to “admit.” Nobody disputes that Mac malware is barely a blip on the radar compared to Windows. It’s the smug naïveté of Mac users who seem to think OS X can’t be infected by anything that bristles.
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Like we need another thread to hash this over and over and over and over, but… “Smug mac users?” “naiveté?” “Seem to think?” “bristles?” Who’s misdirecting now?
The point that keeps being made (and then ignored with the strawman Mac user who believes infections are “impossible” – which seems to exist only in the minds of the sort of people who believe Mac users are “fanboys”, “smug,” and “naive”) is that for thirty years, there’s been no practical difference between a Mac that “can’t” be infected and one that just “isn’t”. A person who buys or uses a Mac because they don’t want to get infected by malware will find that it works.
The same dynamic is being played out today between iOS/Windows 8 and Android.
It has long been the case that it is not worth the criminals time and effort to develop malware for the Apple OS. Since it now seems that a great many people in governments on both sides of the Atlantic are using ipads, I suspect that this is no longer the case.
If I were a foreign government that had an interest in what the Western Powers were doing, I would be investing in whatever technology I could to crack the problem.
How would it spread? iOS devices can barely communicate with one another, no way that I know of without both using the same app. Unless it masqueraded as a free WiFi hotspot, then jailbroke the target using the browser. Hmm…
My favorite ones are the ones who think it is something about the hardware. I have heard dozens of people tell me ( I own a computer shop, this comes up alot) they will just “get a mac and load windows on it so they still get the interface they are used to and it does not get viruses” :rolleyes: