Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, January 28, 2004

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Apple of my eye: "Nothing [...] had prepared me for the Mac. It wasn't an evolutionary advance on its predecessors; it was a macromutational leap into the future. It is that future we are now living in, whether we use a Mac or a virus-compatible PC." [via Macsanomat]


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Gates tries to use 'Mac OS X Secure Through Obscurity' Myth: "Linux and Mac OS X aren't just more secure because fewer people use them. They're also much harder to crack right out of the box." (MacDailyNews via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]


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SCO posts $250,000 worm bounty: "The SCO Group has posted a $250,000 bounty for information leading to the conviction of the author of the MyDoom worm currently sweeping the Internet." [The Register]


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Before Christmas the amount of spam diminished to less than 200 messages per week. Now I have a record number of messages per week: 349, and rising. It seems that the Window worms are the biggest culprit. I wonder how Windows users are coping? Thanks to double filtering (server-side and Mac OS X Mail) only a couple of spam messages (about 2%) get through.