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Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns
Carol Haynes:
You cannot protect an idiot that insists on clicking on "super-sexo-matic.exe" in their email inbox
-Renegade (June 01, 2010, 07:43 AM)
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You can if they are on MacOS or Linux ;)
This might actually be good news for Microsoft - if Google promotes MacOS and Linux they are bound to become bigger targets for malware and then the dirty truth that Apple and Linux fanboys constantly try to gloss over will be out there!
Renegade:
You cannot protect an idiot that insists on clicking on "super-sexo-matic.exe" in their email inbox
-Renegade (June 01, 2010, 07:43 AM)
--- End quote ---
You can if they are on MacOS or Linux ;)
This might actually be good news for Microsoft - if Google promotes MacOS and Linux they are bound to become bigger targets for malware and then the dirty truth that Apple and Linux fanboys constantly try to gloss over will be out there!
-Carol Haynes (June 01, 2010, 07:55 AM)
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Hahaha~!
Eóin:
The oft quoted "Apple has a smaller market share and so is less of a target" of course is true. But only for certains types of attack, like the above mentioned "super-sexo-matic.exe" :D
But the Chinese hacks were a different breed altogether, they weren't directed at Windows OS, they were directed at Goggle the company. The only way to protect yourself from such a thing is the use the most secure OS, switching to any other is little more than security through obscurity.
And frankly, if Google was really making the switch for security reasons they wouldn't be offering ordinary employees the choice between Mac or Linux, rather their security experts would research the one true 'best' and tell everyone else in the company to use it.
nudone:
using Bing instead of Google is now starting to sound like a compelling argument to me.
40hz:
So why aren't they migrating to Chrome OS?
I seem to recall them saying that's where the future of OS was going. :P
First rule of real system-level product development: "Eat your own dogfood."
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