Behold the Poison Apple

So, Ira Winkler has a great post over at ComputerWorld called “It’s time for the FTC to investigate Mac security”.

It’s pure awesomeness.

The point he makes is that Apple continues to beat the drum about how they are immune to security problems, while in fact they are just as susceptible as the next OS. In fact, when you actually look at how long it takes for Apple to publish fixes to vulnerabilities in the underlying code base, they take on average 50 to 100 percent longer to publish fixes than their competition. And yes, by “competition” I also mean the evil empire itself.

It’s interesting to me that others are starting to pick up on this. I’ve been griping about it for quite a while now and have consistently received tremendous heat for it. But I applaud Ira for his observations which are right on the money. Anyway, a great read if have some time in your day to get to it.