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Closed source is more secure because the viruses can’t see where to get in.
This is why I stick to TempleOS, the only biblically accurate OS. With the power of God and high octane schizophrenia, I’m completely safe.
TempleOS doesnt even have a networking stack.
You don’t even have a humor stack.
This guy doesn’t know how to TempleOS lol.
Oh, I see, you’re all worried about a “networking stack.” How quaint. Let me educate you: God is the ultimate protocol. Who needs your silly HTTP requests and DNS lookups when I can just send a direct message to the big guy upstairs? No IP address needed—He’s omnipresent. My connection is flawless, no need for Wi-Fi signals when I have divine 5G directly from Heaven’s router.
You think TempleOS is lacking? Nah, son, it’s running the only secure, unbreakable network. No firewalls, no encryption—because when you’re transmitting truth straight from the source, who needs all that earthly nonsense? My packets are blessed, my data’s sanctified, and I don’t even need a modem to know the Lord’s will.
So, yeah, keep your networking stack. I’ll stick with the holy bandwidth. It’s been running perfectly since the dawn of time. My packets are blessed, son!
Maybe not for heathens.
The main reason why MacOS has less viruses is that it’s even more than that. Want to run programs not from the app store? Hope you like a convoluted set of settings you have to go through to install that in the first place.
The second main reason is the constant obsolescence of API.
convoluted set of settings
- Attempt to open the app
- Go to Privacy & Security Settings and give it permission
- Open the app
Note that this is only with unsigned apps. You can download other apps and run them just fine as long as they’re signed.
Much confuse. Such convolute. Wow.
- Convoluted enough to scare the average people off from installing apps outside from the app store.
- In theory, code signing is a positive thing, and probably should be part of Linux too. In practice, it becomes an expensive paywall, that often pushes developers to make web applications instead (browsers don’t have to check for code signage), both on Mac and Windows.
Gatekeeper has entered the chat
They can actually
Nonono, imagine a house. But instead of doors it had no doors.
That’s why Windows is so insecure. Since viruses can use the windows as doors.
The virus will just use all those undocumented pipes.
That’s why I always line my pipes with lead.
Okay, the scene in the Colin Ferrell/Anton Yeltsin Fright Night remake where Ferrell’s vampire character can’t pass the threshold so he goes out back, digs up the water line, and yanks on it real hard to fracture the threshold itself was some great lore manipulation.
woosh
But everyone knows that Mint is the best Unix. (Secret giggle behind my hand.)
I first resurrected a dead PC with RedHat before the turn of the century, mind, and that thing had UPTIME.
I still have me a massive soft spot for Solaris back in the day, though.
Mint really is the best :)
I did the same, in the late 99s, and that computer got h4xx3d in two weeks through a vulnerability in Apache.
That was a really good learning experience.
I ran Apache on a box at work, but it was configured by our insanely intelligent sysadmin. Nothing got past her. Never met a sysadmin as brilliant as her. I don’t know how they managed to hire and retain her, but she was given a lot of freedom to run things how she liked - she even had a custom firewall between us and head office!
I also had an insanely cheery yellow iMac G3 at the same time - if it made it through the first ten minutes without crashing it would make it through the day. Somehow its stability and resilience improved over time. Not so my windows PC. If you left that on too long, memleak.dll and slowdown.dll would take over and everything would get shakier and shakier. I never quite got used to only having one button though on the mac.
Now this is the kind of trolling I sincerely advocate.
Obscurity is not security. Obscurity is the fake sensation of privacy, you are on the hands of the creator.
and on the hands of the NSA
I mean, when we’re talking about UNIX, yeah MacOS is probably one of the best…
Linux ain’t UNIX though…
i guess linux can refer to bsd too
*flames, screaming, sound of glass breaking*
God I love the smell of Usenet in the morning
Former macaddict here
I disagree but this is a funny meme
I still miss that magazine. It was freakin’ awesome.
Based.
Security by obscurity is not real.
It can also be said: security by obscurity is the best scenario for the NSA
Are any of us ever real?
How can our eyes be real if mirrors aren’t real?
Have you ever looked, like really looked at your hands?
They call them fingers, but I’ve never seen em fing.
Not on it’s own. But as part of a multi layered approach of does help.
As someone who has professionally done legal reverse engineering. No. No it isn’t.
The security you get through vetting your code is invaluable. Closing off things makes it more likely for things to not be caught by good actors, and thus not fixed and taken advantage of by bad actors.
And obscurity does nothing to stop bad actors, if there’s money to be had. It will temporarily stop script kiddies though. Until the exploit finds it’s easy into their suite of exploits that no one’s fixed yet.
Security is temporary. Nothing is safe.
SOLARIS 8 IS BEST UNIX
Nah, it’s the “best unix” because being one requires paying those SUS bastards.
So … the Darwin kernel is insecure? 🧐
I’m late and this will get buried, but this really speaks to the difference between the open source / ESR / OSI ideology and the free software / RMS / GNU ideology.
Open source ideology says it is better because it produces better software. If MacOS X was closed source and better it serves as a repudiation of that ideology.
Free software ideology says it is better because denying users any of the four freedoms is an immoral act. If MacOS X was proprietary software and better, it would still be immoral to deny users their freedoms; the ideology is not impacted.
Free software ideology says it is better because denying users any of the four freedoms is an immoral act.
I find it weird how some people can strongly agree with that when it comes to software, but move to any other realm of human activity (economics, intellectual property, etc) and suddenly the same freedoms shouldn’t apply.
I think it’s because somebody has to produce that media, and the one producing it gets to choose the license for it, and that license can make it free or non-free.
Now, for open source software, somehow, a lot of people came together and built software that was free. While for movies, shows, books, whatever, the same thing didn’t happen, or at least not to the same extent.
I’m all for FOSS gaming btw.
Well, you see, I deserve free software for my hobbies, or even my business. You deserve to suck shit and die in a gutter. /s
I guess Mac does win, interesting.
