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One interesting sidenote in this story is the fact that Mac OSX now has enough market share that it no longer enjoys security-by-obscurity from targeted malware, let alone herd immunity.



It never did. It has simply been much more secure. The "security by obscurity" claim was a rationalization of windows fans to justify why the mac was so much more secure.

Anyone who genuinely understand security understands that obscurity is not a form of security. There are many incidents of high profile targeted attacks against owners of macs that could have occurred in the past two decades if Apple hadn't been taking security more seriously.




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