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Story: US Government warns of Apple flaw

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My main beef with reporting by Zdnet

Is the headlines often can be too sensationalist, making the average user believe they might be in danger of something affecting them.
When in reality, nothing of the sort will actually happen for the majority of users. As they know howto get what they need.
Messing around with other things in their OS, which they don't understand, they don't want to do, as they don't know what they are doing, so they don't tend do it, they often ask an expert for advice to help them out.

Human behaviour and computers mean, the majority don't do more than they have been shown or have to do get the job done.

I'm not Anti-Microsoft nor pro them. They are ubiquitous and have worldwide presence. So even with a poor security model to their OS, it's out there and doing jobs & running businesses. They will be attacked every second & other OS'es will be attacked too. It's just Microsoft is easygame for anyone with any evil deed to do damage and make them look real bad. Microsoft is working on improving their security but I don't feel they will ever succeed in my opinion of achieving Bsd's unix record of exploits.

Mac OS & Linux have known holes & they are patched as soon as possible, these patches with the massive code base underneath even the patches create new holes.

To create fear in OS'es is not a good thing to do. I suggest create understanding of what needs to be done to have safe computing practices & advise users, howto help themselves protect themselves from whatever the issue(s) are to their computers.

Why not when writing have a 'fix' as part of the article, then this put's the user at ease of what to do to help themselves.

I only suggest to Zdnet keep the sensational reporting for things that can be sensational and worthy of the headline. Other than that keep this kind of reporting lower key.

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