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Roundup Date: Sunday, April 18, 2004

Installing software on Mac OS X versus Windows XP

Installing software on Mac OS X versus Windows XP - (View article)
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This blog post about installing software on Mac OS X versus Windows XP brings up some interesting questions. The author uses iTunes as an example of an application that end-users can install, that reads/writes to your local disk and connects to the Internet. In theory iTunes could do a bunch of damage to your system if it was maliciously coded.Apple, like Microsoft, needs to take security seriously, and I believe they do. What they need to do now is take it to the next level of sophistication, pervasiveness and elegance.... [More]