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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Bill Gates has lost his mind
  • Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:19:56 -0500

on Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:55:50PM -0500, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
>
> On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Shea Tisdale wrote:
>
> >> From Good Morning Silicon Valley...
> >
>
> "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single
> day, they come
> out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare
> anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
>
> What the hell?

Yeah, he's lost his mind WRT even mentioning how insecure Windows is, but
he's right about the "bug a day" thing; there's a Web site, even!

http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/

What he doesn't say is that they're only doing it for a month, and only
to highlight that the MacOS isn't /inherently/ secure, as many would
(justifiably, given the comparison twixt Windows and MacOS historically)
claim. He also doesn't mention that he's probably referring to Vista, so
he can forget about all the horrifyingly insane insecurities built into
all previous versions of Windows, because, you know, Vista fixed all
those bugs, right?

The thing I thought was funny was when he obliquely referred to the fact
that both he and Jobs stole the whole windowing environment idea from
the guys at xerox PARC, and the mouse from Doug Englebart at SRI, and
the guts of MacOS X from Next, which stole them from BSD, and all the
other thefts thoughout the history of computing. I wonder where Jobs
stole the idea for keeping the iPod so simple?

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