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If you see an article implying that Macs are vulnerable to attack because some Mac users still use Internet Explorer 5.2.X on OS X? They're clueless, and there's a very good chance they've never worked with a Mac on a regular basis. (No, in fact just having reviewed OS X for a week or so is not the same as working with it regularly).
If an article quotes someone with a good job title implying that Macs are more at risk because you see a lot of Macs at hacker conferences? Clueless, with a good chance of stupid. (I imagine that the folks at hacker conferences wear Nike shoes too, however, that does not imply that wearing Nikes makes you more vulnerable to hacking. Monty Python witch - hunting logic is not a valid algorithm for assessing security issues.)
Note that both of these examples of cluelessness come from the same site, billing itself as "Mac Intelligence for the Enterprise". Just because a site uses the word "Intelligence" in its motto doesn't make them a bastion of actual intelligence. Here's another hint...the enterprise doesn't really care about iPods other than what they do for Apple's stock price. (3 of the 10 articles on the home page of MacNewsWorld.com, the enterprise doesn't care about rumor-mongering rebranded as "Tech Briefs", also a story on the home page of MacNewsWorld.com, and they like articles that foment hysteria just to increase hit counts even less.
Yeah...MacNewsWorld has an impressive title, but "Intelligence for the Enterprise"? SO not the case, unless "intelligence" is now a synonym for "clueless".
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