Just heard on "Market Report" (WKNO-FM, 6 and 6:30pm weekdays):
The U. S. Army has switched from Windows NT servers to Macintosh because of security problems inherent with NT! Switch was made about six months ago. Spokesman said they got tired of plugging wholes in the NT software.
A professor of computer science was quoted as saying that NT was like "a house with hundreds of doors. While the Mac...has only one door." That's what makes it both harder to crack and easier to watch.
MS, of course, fell back to quoting numbers, 33% of sites needing security run NT while only 1% use Macs. They suggest that the difficulty in cracking is more illusory than actual.
As far as I am concerned, there are simply fewer Mac hackers because they don't have the same "motivation" as windoze/NT hackers. And why waste time doing the hard stuff when it is easier to throw rocks at the glass house. (Does anyone know of a good cleaner for a metaphor mixer?)
