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First Malware Running Natively on M1 Chip Discovered
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I understand your point, the only issue is that words such as "popular" and "better" is subjective based on user preference. AndroidOS may have a greater marketshare worldwide (similar to WindowsOS), that can either be its popular to some or all and/or better to some.
Then there is the issue of cost, cost of entry, knowledge, forked versions, etc.
Enough people can do it that Apple won't pay anyone to do it or see it as impressive.
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I've read a lot about them and they are likely richer than you or I (me for sure anyways). While they probably started out as basement nerds, they developed their skills no differently than the Adrian Carmack or George Hotz of the world. The only difference is how they use their knowledge to buy that Mercedes or mansion. While they should be smarter and stay out of legal trouble, the countries they're in generally let this type of behavior slide or in some cases encourage it.
OMG, that's too funny.
And I mildly disagree with you on the word "pancakes". Is there no room for "waffles?" Love those tiny little cubicles in waffles, especially when they fill up with butter and syrup!
Appreciation for pancakes does not exclude appreciation for waffles. Especially blueberry waffles
Okay, I'm good with that. Better if blueberries were joined by cherries. Put whipped cream on top and you have a great Independence Day breakfast right there!Appreciation for pancakes does not exclude appreciation for waffles. Especially blueberry waffles
You brought it up, so it deserves a response. Now I'm excited for the covid vaccines and would like to get one when it's my turn, but I haz a question:
How can I trust covid vaccines with politicians saying we need to wear masks forever?
Either the mask is effective or the vaccine is effective...so which is it? Curious minds just want to know. 😉
Your tagline says you're a software engineer.
That means you should KNOW it's buggy, because you should know ALL software is buggy.
The guy I'm responding to is saying that it's buggier than Intel-built macOS and has vulnerabilities not present in the other one. He's spreading FUD. Obviously there's never a perfect update, but people aren't noticing any regressions.
I was having so much trouble with our macs that we stopped using them. Couldn’t get a clean installer file.
The logs showed that at boot the system would hit forks and the os would make an educated guess (I assume) as to which path to take. This would happen more than once per the log file, at boot.
Was able to save the log file and it showed a Developer ID of K36BKF7T3D.
Don’t know if this is related. Read in the article that the source would disappear before detection. The log file said exactly the same thing.
Did clean installs (thumb drive and booting up from another install), Network Recovery installs, took the computer to a suspect repair guy...Nothing worked. As if it’s in the memory, firmware or the recovery drive.
Read recently usb thumb drives must be created via the os you are going to put on the thumb drive. So to create a Sierra installer you must be booted from a Sierra install to create a Sierra installer. Must have something to do with the recovery drive. Like it pulls information from the recovery partition, so it needs to match the OS.
This was news to me. Even though it makes sense, I wonder if most people know this...
The logs showed that at boot the system would hit forks and the os would make an educated guess (I assume) as to which path to take. This would happen more than once per the log file, at boot.
Was able to save the log file and it showed a Developer ID of K36BKF7T3D.
Don’t know if this is related. Read in the article that the source would disappear before detection. The log file said exactly the same thing.
Did clean installs (thumb drive and booting up from another install), Network Recovery installs, took the computer to a suspect repair guy...Nothing worked. As if it’s in the memory, firmware or the recovery drive.
Read recently usb thumb drives must be created via the os you are going to put on the thumb drive. So to create a Sierra installer you must be booted from a Sierra install to create a Sierra installer. Must have something to do with the recovery drive. Like it pulls information from the recovery partition, so it needs to match the OS.
This was news to me. Even though it makes sense, I wonder if most people know this...
It was a personal security blog written by a woman.
If I remember correctly, it was an instructional on how to create a secure installation.
Well written and knowledgable person. Highly methodical approach utilizing third party apps. Reading confirmed why so many issues with MacOS.
I will have to boot one of my crippled macs to try and locate the website. I will try later today to locate the data. This person put a lot of effort into the instructional.
I would isolate any information from your macs that you do not wish to lose. Sounds like they objective of the malware is to erase data.
If I remember correctly, it was an instructional on how to create a secure installation.
Well written and knowledgable person. Highly methodical approach utilizing third party apps. Reading confirmed why so many issues with MacOS.
I will have to boot one of my crippled macs to try and locate the website. I will try later today to locate the data. This person put a lot of effort into the instructional.
I would isolate any information from your macs that you do not wish to lose. Sounds like they objective of the malware is to erase data.
It’s been so long that I cannot remember the password and the drive will not boot from the Recovery partition.
This is why I stopped using our Macs. Nothing but inconsistencies and the Company, like so many, has become so Politicized.
This is why I stopped using our Macs. Nothing but inconsistencies and the Company, like so many, has become so Politicized.
If this is the result of the ARM Architecture, how safe are iOS devices?
How would you even know if this malware is on an iOS device?
Even tried running an older OS, so I could run DiskWarrior - didn’t help. After a clean install, I do not know if the system becomes reinfected or if a clean install even removes the malware at all.
If the OS can hide a recovery partition, can it hide malware. Back on Lion, you could remove the recovery partition and put it on an external thumb drive. I tried this and the recovery thumb drive was undetectable until boot. Seem to remember you could not select it as a boot volume; you had to select at boot (option key - boot loader?). If you inserted the thumb drive on a Windows system, it was if it wasn’t it wasn’t even there. if I remember correctly, you couldn’t even erase the recovery thumb drive via a Windows, because it wouldn’t detect it. Cannot erase what cannot be seen, I guess.
Read iOS has built in layers of security, that are not utilized. Why create these layers and not use them?
Things have changed a lot since Tim Cook took over.
How would you even know if this malware is on an iOS device?
Even tried running an older OS, so I could run DiskWarrior - didn’t help. After a clean install, I do not know if the system becomes reinfected or if a clean install even removes the malware at all.
If the OS can hide a recovery partition, can it hide malware. Back on Lion, you could remove the recovery partition and put it on an external thumb drive. I tried this and the recovery thumb drive was undetectable until boot. Seem to remember you could not select it as a boot volume; you had to select at boot (option key - boot loader?). If you inserted the thumb drive on a Windows system, it was if it wasn’t it wasn’t even there. if I remember correctly, you couldn’t even erase the recovery thumb drive via a Windows, because it wouldn’t detect it. Cannot erase what cannot be seen, I guess.
Read iOS has built in layers of security, that are not utilized. Why create these layers and not use them?
Things have changed a lot since Tim Cook took over.
They're both effective. And until the vaccines have been tested in real world use as to whether you can still spread Covid after being vaccinated, both are required until we reach herd immunity.