2. These weren't drivers. Did you read the article?
3. The larger share of the blame belongs to Apple. Why does Apple trust devices like this that are essentially independent computers? Why should anything this chip does be able to take over the phone and install software on it, in privileged mode, that replicates itself?
I want to believe that you're not right, but you might be. I just can't understand why a massive proprietary codebase becoming open wouldn't be a Good Thing
Sure, but they're also being defended constantly by armies of programmers. When a vulnerability is discovered, the four projects you mentioned are all awfully quick to issue and distribute patches.
Think about how Google pressured Microsoft to fix a vulnerability when MS was too slow to respond[1]. That's the kind of crap you see with proprietary development.
Open source is just a flat-out better method of developing software, but especially so when it comes to patching vulnerabilities.
Nothing on that site makes the claim that Apple software is immune from malware. They claim that it's "secure", but that's relative anyways. All of the real iOS malware I know of abuses either jailbroken devices or enterprise provisionings. The standard infection case of "ran something you shouldn't have" or drive by downloading is a lot harder to pull off there.
Right. The Mac Zealots will say "These aren't viruses! They're unwanted programs purposefully installed by the user who thought he was updating Acrobat." But it's like a 2nd amendment advocate trying to win an argument by pointing out that word "Assault Rifle" is meaningless. It may be true, but it's not a way to argue.
I'm pretty sure "assault rifle" [0] is a reasonably well-defined term and you mean "assault weapon" [1] in your post.
Pointing out that "assault weapon" is meaningless is trying to combat emotive, irrational legislation based on conflating "assault weapon" with "assault rifle" because most people don't understand the difference (and one of the terms was chosen to be intentionally confusing).
You completely misunderstand my point. I'm a card-carrying NRA member, but I wince when I hear someone notice that a anti-2nd-amendment zealot mixes up terms like "magazine" and "cartridge" and thinks "Aha! I've won this argument because you don't know what these basic terms mean." It really doesn't help convince people on the other side to consider another point of view.
I think you misunderstood mine: it's unlike the case of "virus" in the sense that it acquired a general meaning and then was retrofitted with a technical one to co-opt feelings for political goals.
It would be like if people had used "virus" as a generic without it ever having a technical definition (by analogy to infections), then Congress proposed to ban encryption to stop "viruses", because hey, lots of viruses use encryption.
Pointing out that co-opting from the informal "infectious software" to "software that uses encryption" is a meaningful point.
I think you're correct that the usage of virus for unwanted software is fine; I think you're wrong about the evolution of language there matching what happened with "assault weapon". Specifically, one change is going from the technical to the generic, while the other is going from the generic to technical.
I'm a 50-something and my Mom with her Mac manages to get infected with browser-based malware. And she's pretty careful. But sometimes those "update" notifications look real to her.
I used to have to clear out malware remotely from one of my grandmother's computers about twice a year, for several years.. I was so happy when it finally died, bought her a chromebook, which she was very happy with.
Chromebooks are probably the single best option for a computer with a keyboard. I wish the chrometops were a bit more compelling, as I'd probably switch my other grandmother (ubuntu 16.04) over. She has one program she plays a lot (since 1996) which runs under WINE.
With bi-lingual parents (Yiddish, English), I grew up bilingual. In school and some courses at Yivo, I was able to finish off full literacy in Yiddish. I grew up reading/writing Hebrew, too, but it took spending a year in Israel to lose the "Yiddish" accent and speak like an Israeli.
So, if parents are bilingual and you have friends/school where both languages are spoken, it's very easy.
This is simply wrong. We switched from Macs to Windows 10 because of the better monitor options available for professional color grading work. And true "Cinema" and consumer 4K resolutions are supported and supported well ONLY on Windows 10.
I respectfully completely disagree as do most professional photo/video folks I know. Color grading support on Macs is superb. There's also no commonly used resolutions supported on Windows that I know of that aren't available on Mac, so I'm not sure what you mean by the last part.
