Story: A worm belies Apple's perfection

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"When anyone refuses to engage with reality, refuses to admit mistakes and asks you to sign up to faith over facts: beware. It is a heady club to join, and self-righteousness combined with glib certainties engenders fierce support. None of this will help you when the cracks get big enough for the edifice to crumble. We take note of what our readers think – you can find this out for yourself by using the Talkback below. It's time for Bush to learn to listen."

I'm not sure how this analysis of the U.S. presidential situation is relevant to this article on Apple...

As for the comments regarding Apple's attitude of unaccountability, point taken. The reference to 'opener/renepo' doesn't serve that position, however. In point of fact, Renepo's existance only reinforces the wisdom of OS X's default permissions structure which denies the code a vulnerable access point - its a virus without a vector. It really doens't matter how gawdawfully violent the script may be, without a reliably reproducable means of infection and transmittal, it is effectively defanged - a lion in the zoo.

Poetically, the most plausible scenario for mass distribution of Renepo is to take advantage of the myriad weaknesses in Windows systems with ANOTHER virus that then propogates Renepo in addition. Course, if someone actually attempted to install it, they'd be asked for their Administrative password.... Hmmm....that lion is looking rather kittenish after all.

You criticism of Apple's marketing culture is dead on. Your impuing of their technical capacit doestn' follow from that, however.

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