{"id":374,"date":"2006-09-29T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/its-time-to-practice-safe-computing.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-09T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:48:19","slug":"its-time-to-practice-safe-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/its-time-to-practice-safe-computing.htm","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to practice safe computing &#8211; whatever the operating system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--115954772471698625-->I recently switched my primary home computer to a Mac but I also use Windows and Linux.  I don&#8217;t consider myself to be a member of the Mac community, or the Linux community, or the Windows community &#8211; because (based on many forum posts and blog comments that I read) all of these &#8220;communities&#8221; are full of people with bigoted views that generally boil down to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/forum-evangelism.htm\">&#8220;my OS is better than your OS&#8221; or &#8220;Duh&#8230; but why would you want to use that?&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Based largely on Apple&#8217;s advertising though, one of the things that I did assume with Mac OS X  was that I&#8217;d be secure by default.  Nope.  It turns out that&#8217;s not true as there is an obscure flaw in Mac OS X (surely not?!) whereby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgeekery.com\/tips\/security\/how_a_malformed_installer_package_can_crack_mac_os_x\">a malformed installer package can elevate its privileges in Mac OS X and become root<\/a>.  After running Windows for 16 years I&#8217;m used to these sort of flaws but surely His Jobsness&#8217; wonderful creation is above such things!<\/p>\n<p>Frankly I don&#8217;t care that Mac OS X is flawed.  So is Linux.  So is Windows.  So is anything with many millions of lines of code &#8211; open or closed source &#8211; but I thought better of Apple because I believed that they would keep me safe by default.  It&#8217;s well known that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/using-unprivileged-accounts-in-windows.htm\">running Windows XP as anything less than a Power User is difficult<\/a> and that&#8217;s one of the many improvements in Windows Vista.  All the Linux installers that I&#8217;ve used recently suggested that I create a non-root user as well as root but the OS X installer is happy for me to breeze along and create a single administrator account without a word of further advice.  I appreciate that an OS X administrator is not equal to root but nevertheless it&#8217;s a higher level of access than should be used for daily computing and because I didn&#8217;t know any better (I&#8217;m just a dumb switcher) I didn&#8217;t create a standard user account (until today).<\/p>\n<p>I read a lot of Mac and Linux zealots singing the praises of their operating systems and saying how Windoze is a haven for spyware and viruses.  Well, it&#8217;s time to wake up and smell the coffee &#8211; as Mac OS X gains in popularity (I heard something about the new MacBooks having a 12% share of all new laptop sales recently) then Mac users will have to start thinking about spyware, viruses and the like.  Now is the time to practice safe computing &#8211; whatever the operating system &#8211; with most users running as administrators then that could quickly become a major issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently switched my primary home computer to a Mac but I also use Windows and Linux. 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