[tor-talk] development interests

[David Green]

"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 <albill at openbuddha.com> 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.
>
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> 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?
>
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