New life for old XP

wintersun wrote:


New operating system that is more secure - you mean buying a Mac to use the secure Mac OS and bootcamp to run XP?

You cannot use Windows and secure in the same sentence and be serious.

With my Apple computers I run an update from Apple for the OS a couple times a year. That is it.

Personally, I think the user needs to take responsibility for their own security, and not necessarily rely on any OS developer to do so? Part of the problem is that the vast majority of Windows users run default Admin accounts on their personal systems, when it's not necessary except in a few cases.

Many appear to concur that MAC OS X doesn't represent as lucrative a target for hackers as Windows, considering its relatively low user base at around 6%? That's not the case for Apple's mobile iOS which hackers and security experts have uncovered numerous exploits requiring continued patching. Not surprising, as iOS being among the most popular mobile operating systems.

At the end of the day, OS security updates are only as good as they are made available in a timely manner. Case in point from this former Apple whitehat hacker, who just disclosed the delays in patching critical vulnerabilities Apple users left exposed to serious threats for weeks, former employee says. When exploits are known by black hat hackers, patches need to be issued in days not weeks. Especially, those that require little or no intervention to execute on the part of the user.

One can believe all the marketing hype of how secure an OS is supposed to be. But, in the the end, its up to the user to insure that it in fact is.