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Friday, June 18, 2010

Fanboys strangely silent about secret Mac OS X security update

Microsoft recently admitted, via the Director of it's Security Response Centre, that it doesn't report every Windows security vulnerability discovered and subsequently fixed via patches and updates. No big deal you might think, as long as the holes get fixed that's all that matter. I happen to agree, however that most vocal section of Microsoft-haters the Mac and Linux fanboy brigade certainly did not. Indeed, there was much waving of arms and displaying of indignation that Microsoft was 'cheating the figures' by not declaring security updates so as to be able to claim it was more secure than it actually is. Odd then, that the same folk have not as yet starting kicking up a similar fuss when Apple is caught doing the same thing.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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