As the twenty year old Mac OS is slowly phased out in favour of the new, FreeBSD Unix-based OSX, the security picture for networked Macintosh hosts and servers changes dramatically. This instructional paper introduces a broad range of applicable security measures that can be taken to provide a basic level of resistance to intruders, malicious code and damage or compromise to ones PC and/or its electronic contents when using Macintosh OSX. The original, single-user Mac operating system was extremely secure out of the box. Essentially this is true of all incarnations of the OS since its original inception up to and, for the most part, including OS 9.x. Why?
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