Mac/iPad security perceptions will soon vanish (opens in new tab)

Reminds me of some similar predictions:

"This is almost certainly the year of the OS X exploit" (Feb 2006) http://www.securityfocus.com/news/113758

iPhone to be target of hackers (December 2007) http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/121107-report-iphone-t...

Apple has a few extremely good security engineers (two of which were stolen from FreeBSD and whom I know personally). I've never believed OS X is bullet-proof, but it sure beats anything else I'd recommend to my 60+ year old mom. She's had more security problems with her garage than with her computer.

"Security experts know, of course, that there’s nothing magical about Macs when it comes to security."

I suppose a conceptually simpler security model isn't "magical" but in my experience it usually does improve the security of a system.

From the article: "With the Trojan installed on a Mac" Well, sure, but of course installing a trojan on a non-jailbroken iPad is pretty much impossible. And with the introduction of the Mac App Store it's going to be increasingly harder to convince Mac users to install non-App Store apps too.

TLDR version > Soon, even lynx users will no longer be safe! Feel the fear and buy our sponsored antivirus software!

I am somewhat doubtful regarding a mac-bashing article in the "microsoft report" folder. But maybe that's just me...

I call BS on the headline. I don't understand how this applies to the iPad.