AFAIK MacOS and all the apps are still written in C++ or ObjC (or C or Pascal), which don't prevent stupid mistakes like buffer overflows. Until the world moves to verifiable safety and sandboxing (Java/.NET/Eiffel) is there any reason we can expect MacOS to remain secure once it draws substantial attention from malware authors? I don't think I'd run even OpenBSD without a firewall...
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Date: 2005-02-06 01:33 pm (UTC)