"exploits all the time" -- I am not convinced, for me, it happens... certainly less so for a less used OS, or version of. Obviously if one is having trouble with some exploit, that would be something to deal/worry about, but I have never had any issues with OS X generally (and probably Linux/BSD). So chasing the bleeding edge of a system/OS could be just that -- painful. This is also discounting any other social control mechanism(s) one could fall prey too.
'Old' -- what does age, necessarily, have to do with any, relatively, modern OS -- such as almost any historical version of OS X (again: or a Linux/BSD)? Surely there is a business reason for notching up version numbers -- dare I say 'money'? I admit, there is no doubt some things un-addressed, but they can often be associated with the negative sides of 'progress' -- certainly a valid perspective. I automatically took any security patches from, say, Apple, but they have dried up now. This is not a sign of 'danger' or being antiquated, it just is a sign of not having Apple's focus -- as they, of course, are more concerned about selling new hardware. Also, many later patches are mainly to do with countering 'holes', inadvertently, added to an already working and functional system -- again, the painful, money oriented progress of modernity. Going onto the Internet with a loaded gun, I feel, is a huge, paranoid exaggeration. My two cents ;) I am happy with any (in theory) OS, which does what I need/require. Mr Green (with no suffixes) On 24 September 2013 12:30, Al Billings <[email protected]> wrote: > There are exploits all the time in various operating systems and tools. > Given how old your OS is, there are core things that are simply not > addressed in it. You're effectively playing on the Internet with a loaded > gun as every time there is a bad exploit that a OS vendor fixes (such as > Apple in your case), you don't get the fix. > > -- > Al Billings > http://www.openbuddha.com > http://makehacklearn.org > > > On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, David Green wrote: > > > As an aside, besides some unknown specifics re. security, what could > > possibly be in a new version of OS X -- or any OS? > > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
