An Apple Myth I'm Tired Of

George Ou of ZDNet writes, "There are people that are under the illusion that Mac exploits are impossible, but it clearly isn't the case." Now, of course it isn't. The very idea of a computer that is perfectly invulnerable to any sort of exploit is preposterous. (Note that that is not a reason to give up trying to make systems as secure as we possibly can.) Ou continues: "[A] zero-day Safari exploit for example only demonstrated a flaw by enumerating the user's files but could have just as easily deleted all of them." Now, the fact that there are people in this world who believe that Macs are somehow virus-free does not portend well for the computing public, although I suppose such prople are a small minority.