Re: AUGD: Protection on the interwebs
Re: AUGD: Protection on the interwebs
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Protection on the interwebs
- From: "Randy B. Singer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:57:13 -0800
On Jan 8, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Chris Hart <email@hidden> wrote:
> Mr. Singer,
>
> You will refrain from telling me how to conduct myself. I haven't told you what you should and shouldn't do.
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> I will decide for myself what to recommend for my professional Mac consulting clientele and the members of my apple user group, based on my 20 years of working in I.T.
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> I wonder if you've become so invested in, and accustomed to, shooting down security concerns on the Mac, that you do not respect the desire of others to take precautions with their own systems.
I'm sorry that you feel that way, Chris, but in case you missed it, we are on a "discussion list." If you don't care to invite discussion of the things that you say, then you probably shouldn't participate.
You will note that for all of the points that I've made, I've included my reasoning, and my points have been accompanied by citations. If you disagree with my viewpoint, you might want to make a reasoned argument to the contrary, possibly accompanied by citations of your own backing up your position. I'm certainly open to being educated. However, I'm not particularly impressed by someone telling me that "this is my position, believe it because I said so."
It's highly unlikely that when you make statements on a discussion list that everyone is going to just blindly agree with you if they feel that your statements are misguided. Maybe you are used to that in your user group, or in your consulting practice, where others have little experience with computers, but on this list there are a number of Macintosh experts. Some of these experts may even have been working with Macs longer than you have and may even have much more experience with the Mac recently than you have.
To address your statement about me "shooting down security concerns;" I *do* feel that security is important. It's very important. However, I've been in touch with literally thousands of Mac users (I'm the head of a Mac user group with well over 9,000 members, I'm on about a dozen Mac discussion lists, and I have several very popular Mac troubleshooting Web sites with over a million hits, from which I receive a lot of feedback), and from this extensive experience I know that one's security plan for one's Mac has to be balanced with concern for a Mac's stability. Also, there are different ways to become secure. For the Mac, it is currently more important to be educated than to run anti-virus software, and to then blindly assume that you are protected.
Finally, you are correct, I can't tell you what to tell your user group members and/or your professional clients. I would hope that you would want to learn as much as you can about the latest Mac issues, and then present your user group members and professional clients with the best information possible. Maybe even giving them a choice where there is disagreement with your own viewpoint. But I have no control over the quality and honesty of the information that you present them with.
Good luck to you.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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