A Fast Look at Bogus Apple Inc. Issues
April 16th, 2008In recent days, I’ve commented about some issues that have gotten a fair amount of press lately. Like some of the silly arguments in our presidential campaign these days about who is “elite” and who isn’t, I regard some of the most blatant spin that emerges from some tech pundits these days as completely wrongheaded. Some of it may even represent a manufactured controversy of one sort or another, but that’s for you to decide.
Chief among the silly season manifestations is the ongoing complaint that Mac security is lacking and we’re about to be infected with a serious bout of malware any day now. This doesn’t mean it can’t happen or it won’t happen, but I’m not ready to put triple locks on the doors yet. I do, however, have Leopard’s firewall running, and my router’s NAT firewall is doing its thing. I also use OpenDNS rather than my ISP’s own DNS servers, because it’s faster and uses PhishTank technology, for an added level of protection. Of course, I make sure I run regular backups of my Macs. Even this site gets a double daily backup, one of which is in an offsite location for added protection.
