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Malware, the Mac, and the wolf

May 6, 2011

John Gruber’s delivered a list of previous claims that the Mac is about to succumb to malware real soon now under the title of “Wolf!“ The analogy John’s making is that the pundits should all remember the tale of the boy who cried wolf. But, as my friend Graham pointed out, John’s missing something: at [...]

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Dumb Windows users write dumb things about malware. News at 11.

November 4, 2009

Over at PC Pro, my old chum Chris Brennan is conducting a brave experiment. As an ardent Mac user, in the cause of science, he’s put aside his Mac and is living with Windows 7 for a while (catch up with his posts here.) After a couple of weeks, a story about some Windows 7 [...]

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Oyster Card hack can be published

July 21, 2008

Oyster card hack to be published. "In its ruling, the court said: ‘Damage to NXP is not the result of the publication of the article but of the production and sale of a chip that appears to have shortcomings’" In other words, if you messed up and released something with a security hole in it, [...]

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