A Mac has invaded my house!

[TheBlackAdder]

84. I used to be a Mac bigot, not anymore. Microsoft Windows is perhaps the most unsecure OS now.

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Much of what you do in Windows is sent to Amazon, Microsoft or the NSA, as they aid their collections.
Add in Cortana, which listens even when your devices are in Sleep mode, and you have the perfect storm.

Apple is a little more subtle about their data collection efforts, and is not as invasive or wide in scope.


I've given up on Microsoft because most of the viruses and malware are by intent, having backdoor gate calls and access points that allow their software to run much faster than 3rd party vendors who must follow published APIs. Way back, during the Windows, Mac, OS/2 wars, there were talks about closing those security exposures and have the operating systems run in a protected supervisor state--similar to many mainframes. Old timers will remember the Spreadsheet and browser wars of the 80s and 90s. Lotus and Netscape had to follow published APIs while Microsoft took unpublished backdoor gate calls to make their products run faster, while losing integrity. People liked Microsoft because their stuff ran faster--not realizing that the other products were handicapped by them.

For years, Microsoft promised a secure OS, and WINNT was supposed to be the first step. While Apple got partially there, Microsoft went for speed over security. Those exposures are easily discovered during code disassembly. The NSA access points, which are pressured on OS vendors as a means to gain instant access to a desktop, gives Russia and other hackers direct and untraceable access to anyone's OS. Certain corporate router and firewall firms have the same access points, which open networks up to rogue agents from any country. Then, we have hardware made in China, and expect that stuff to be secure from them. Heck, even most mainboards have NSA firmware in there. This allows for mass data collection under a single warrant, upwards of a million home desktops at one shot. The NSA doesn't hack into home systems, they don't need to. And in our need to secure ourselves, by allowing the government to eavesdrop, we've opened up our whole country to every other one. That seems to have added more exposure than the purported benefits. I took a US Intel course, and it's quite unsettling.

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