{"id":4,"date":"2004-06-08T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T12:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2004-06-10T14:07:31","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T18:07:31","slug":"mac-users-lose-their-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Mac users lose their innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, before I get the beatdown from Mac zealots, Macs aren&#8217;t all bad.  Onezumi, who kicks ass in the art she does and is partly the driving force behind my getting this site up and running, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onezumi.com\/oni\/html\/modules.php?name=copperminecomic&#038;file=displayimage&#038;album=1&#038;pos=80\">illustrates in this comic<\/a>.  Did I mention she kicks ass?  \ud83d\ude42 [\/brown_nose]<\/p>\n<p>But, Macs aren&#8217;t perfect.  And they certainly aren&#8217;t as secure and exploit-free as Apple would like everyone to believe.  Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1608216,00.asp\">security vulnerability was found in Mac OS X just yesterday<\/a>. <!--more--> If you&#8217;re using Mac OS versions 10.2 or 10.3, it&#8217;s time to check for updates, or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/downloads\/securityupdate_2004-06-07_(_10_3_4).html\">go here and download the update directly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re coming to the point where Mac users can no longer say their computers&#8217; OS is more secure than the alternatives out there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Philip Schiller, Apple&#8217;s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said last month, &#8220;While no operating system can be completely immune from all security issues, Mac OS X&#8217;s Unix-based architecture has so far turned out to be much better than most.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uhhhmm&#8230; nooo, it&#8217;s still Unix, Philip.  It&#8217;s not that Unix is better.  It&#8217;s just that <a href=\"http:\/\/netsecurity.about.com\/od\/secureyournixcomputer\/\">everyone else has done most of the work<\/a> for you already.  And let&#8217;s just hope for your sake Apple doesn&#8217;t gain more market share and become more of a target, eh? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac users need to be worried about newly discovered security exploits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}