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From: zoara on 19 Apr 2010 06:30 Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > > So what was your claim again? My claim was evidently missed by you during your frenzied attempts to refute an argument I didn't actually make. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 19 Apr 2010 06:59 R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > I personally thnk it's the 'two men running away from a lion' > > situation. You > > don't have to run faster than the lion, you just have to run faster > > than the > > other guy. > > I like the analogy :) > I've always heard is as "You don't have to swim faster than the shark". I wonder which was the original, and how it was coined. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 19 Apr 2010 06:59 R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Here's my highly speculative theory. Most malware is developed in the > parts of the world where Macs are very rarely used. Places like > Russia, (the) Ukraine, and China. To write malware requires extensive > knowledge of the system you are attacking - the sort of knowledge > that can't be acquired through occasional use. Moreover, most hackers > tend to be fairly young. So they're going to attack the software they > know the most about, and that will be the software they grew up > using. That software will mainly be, in those countries, Windows. > Oooh, now there's a thought. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Jim on 19 Apr 2010 07:04 On 2010-04-19, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> Here's my highly speculative theory. Most malware is developed in the >> parts of the world where Macs are very rarely used. Places like >> Russia, (the) Ukraine, and China. To write malware requires extensive >> knowledge of the system you are attacking - the sort of knowledge >> that can't be acquired through occasional use. Moreover, most hackers >> tend to be fairly young. So they're going to attack the software they >> know the most about, and that will be the software they grew up >> using. That software will mainly be, in those countries, Windows. >> > > Oooh, now there's a thought. I'm not convinced, though. As someone else pointed out, building a Hackintosh isn't exactly hard nowadays, but you wouldn't even have to do that - I expect someone has got OS X going well in a VM. It could be though. Familiarity is a strong motivating factor, I guess. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 19 Apr 2010 07:09
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:04:58 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >On 2010-04-19, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> >>> Here's my highly speculative theory. Most malware is developed in the >>> parts of the world where Macs are very rarely used. Places like >>> Russia, (the) Ukraine, and China. To write malware requires extensive >>> knowledge of the system you are attacking - the sort of knowledge >>> that can't be acquired through occasional use. Moreover, most hackers >>> tend to be fairly young. So they're going to attack the software they >>> know the most about, and that will be the software they grew up >>> using. That software will mainly be, in those countries, Windows. >>> >> >> Oooh, now there's a thought. > >I'm not convinced, though. As someone else pointed out, building a >Hackintosh isn't exactly hard nowadays, but you wouldn't even have to do >that - I expect someone has got OS X going well in a VM. I had 10.3 going in a PearPC G3-emulating VM before ever owning an OSX Mac, so it's been possible for a loooong time. >It could be though. Familiarity is a strong motivating factor, I guess. Possibly also the feel amongst script-kiddies that Macs are toys and not worth poking at? I dunno. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex." -- Marvin the Martian |