eWeek’s David Morgenstern had an interesting take on the state of the security of the Windows OS and Mac OS and why the Mac OS has many less security flaws than windows. He even went as far to say, “The Mac platform is more secure than Windows and will continue to be so.”

As part of the article he interviewed Ron Hipschman, senior media specialist at San Francisco’s Exploratorium science museum and wireless security blogger Glenn Fleishman.

Both Fleishman and Hipschman said that while bugs are constantly being uncovered, Mac OS X appears harder to exploit than Windows.

Hipschman said Apple has turned off a lot of services in OS X that make Windows vulnerable, especially in Windows XP. One example he noted was that Apple offers users an opportunity during installation to enter an administrator password, rather than defaulting to admin user status without a password.

Fleishman said that while there have been exploits demonstrated on the Mac, many are very difficult to accomplish out in the wild.

“No one has come up with a good vector to spread infection on the Mac; that’s what stymies people,” he said. “Even if you came up with the world’s best Wi-Fi exploit drive around the city, and actually take ownership of 100 Macs, even then, with root-level access on a Mac, you can’t just deploy [an exploit] exponentially or even arithmetically. You can’t even add one more,” he said.

[Why Is the Mac OS More Secure than Windows?]

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