Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

-----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam Proven Sent: 18 September 2015 17:47 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?] On 18 September 2015 at 18:25, Dave G4UGM <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote: expert, but I do know that if a product has as many lines of code in it as OS X it will have bugs and security holes... Well, overall, yes. It's a Unix box. If it was a web server or something, it would be remotely exploitable, like any other Unix box. But it's not. It has no outwardly-accessible services at all -- it's behind a firewall and all it does is share a single folder with my laptops. It doesn't even have ssh. It isn't a mail server, web server or anything. There are a few Trojans on OS X, but I think I am smart enough to avoid them. There's no adware, no spyware (except what Apple might have built in), no self-infecting viruses, nothing. I don't use most of Apple's apps -- I don't use their browser, email client, chat client, or productivity tools; I very occasionally use their media player and their text editor, and that's about it. The Apple text editor isn't the default, incidentally.

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