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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Ah, and that would mean what in English <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> In the early days MAC was the preferred target but as their system 
> improved
> and Maxisquash started making too rapid changes and cut back on testing,
> the focus shifted to windoze.  The Mac OS is somewhat based on the 
> Berkeley
> Software Distribution, a variant of unix from when you could get a cheap
> copy if you were an educational institution.  BSD was different enough 
> from
> Bell Labs unix (Unix Is Not multiX) that they could distribute it without 
> a
> Bell Labs license.  Jobs used BSD in his Next system which was folded into
> Mac OSX.  The other major used of BSD was Sun Misrosystems which has now
> shifted to a varient of Linux.
>
> Now most Viri, worms, etc are written by script kiddies.  They are just
> doing some minor modification to an existing program then parading around
> like they did something.  There are still new programs being written but
> truly original work is rare.
>
> Another thing that has happened is that companies are hiring people to 
> look
> for problems so they can be found and fixed before they are exploited.