[Dailydave] This guy cracks me up.

[dan at geer.org]

PREMISE: If as is often stated here and elsewhere
and in various heated ways, Mac OS X security is
meaningfully inferior to the Microsoft way, then

CONSEQUENT: The low observed attack rate against
Mac OS X machines cannot critically depend on the
"insecurity" label being placed on it.


Frankly, my dear, this leaves the protective effects
of platform diversity as the leading contender for
the upstream cause of the downstream effect, viz.,
low observed attack rates.


--dan, who notes that at the recent USENIX Security
Symposium 35% of the machines in the room for the
keynote address had the Apple logo, a 10-to-1 odds
ratio when comparing to the population at large.