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There aren't any, because no one is attacking it, because it's market share is too small to be worth the trouble

The onus is on *you* to prove that these attacks are in fact happening, since you "buttert" that they are happening.

It simply *can't* be a coincidence that the most widely used platform - Windows - also has the most attacks. No one is attacking OS-2, or BeOS, or Linux, or Amiga, or TRS-80s, or OS X because there simply aren't any targets to attack.

If OS X ever gets a good percentage of the billion or so machines connected to the net - instead of the paltry 25 or 30 million that it currently has - it will become an attractive target.

Until then, it is secure by virtue of it's obscurity. So is OS-2 and BeOS, and no one in their right mind would claim that either of those is "secure by design".

Mike

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Davoud: Mike: You aresooooopredictable! 30-50 million Macs out there. "According to research from New York-based TrendWatch, 83 percent of graphic designers, 77 percent of corporate design departments and 65...


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