Famous Last Words

Published Wed, Feb 7 2007 0:32 | William

I have very little to goof on Bill Gates about, but he's being Mighty brave with challenges like this . 

On the one hand, I really admire his approach and smack talking. 

"We made it way harder for guys to do exploits," said Mr. Gates. "The number [of exploits] will be way less because we've done some dramatic things [to improve security] in the code base. Apple hasn't done any of those things."

In another portion of the interview, he added, "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."

Mr. Gates appears to be referring to the Month of Apple Bugs project intended to highlight a new Apple security issue every day during January of 2007. Said project has stirred the hornet's nest of whether or not Macs are more secure than Windows machines, despite the lack of Mac viruses in the wild.

"We made it way harder for guys to do exploits," said Mr. Gates. "The number [of exploits] will be way less because we've done some dramatic things [to improve security] in the code base. Apple hasn't done any of those things."

In another portion of the interview, he added, "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."

Mr. Gates appears to be referring to the Month of Apple Bugs project intended to highlight a new Apple security issue every day during January of 2007. Said project has stirred the hornet's nest of whether or not Macs are more secure than Windows machines, despite the lack of Mac viruses in the wild."

 

On the other, this seems like a really really big order to fill.  All I can say is I'm cheering for the team and sure hope he's right. 

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