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Title: The Macalope: Insecurity complex
Post by: HCK on March 19, 2013, 03:01:06 pm
The Macalope: Insecurity complex
   




   
The Macalope wonders if there’s a corollary to Betteridge’s Law of Headlines that says something about editors who don’t understand the details of article but frame something as a question just to be on the safe side?

The San Jose Mercury News’s Jon Boudreau asks “Are Apple’s Macs becoming more vulnerable to malware?”

Are Macs becoming more vulnerable? No, they are not. Are they being attacked more? Most definitely. But they’re also far more secure now than they’ve ever been.

The biggest vulnerability to Macintosh computers is the belief among their devoted users that Apple’s (AAPL) superior operating system makes them immune to malware, experts say.
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