Mar 13, 2010, 12:51 PM
OmegaZero_Alpha Wrote:Apples wireless routers and wireless NAS. Not their wireless adapters. And it's specific to which machine you target to be remotely accessible (rather, which one is port forwarded to, much like a dumb version of DMZ). This can be a mac or windows or linux box. Mac users may be more likely to buy one of the apple routers than windows users, however that doesn't mean it's mac security that's an issue.TheDopp Wrote:OmegaZero_Alpha Wrote:This just in: Macs are still the least secure products on the market.
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/5...0/threaded
A security issue with a router/nas suddenly makes just Macs less secure?
A problem Apple should fix? Yes. A problem for users? To the handful of the population using an Apple router, in this configuration (which they had to enable), yes (mac or PC).
Its only a problem with apple's wireless. So it does make macs less secure.
And since their products are more expensive (but include a fun streaming feature) the user base is even smaller. Anecdotally - my parents and friends use flashed wrt54g's, and I use a snapgear 570. The only person I've know that used an apple router used it behind his regular router as a bridge and wireless audio streaming device.
Still an issue, just not with macs.