{"id":499,"date":"2008-06-23T15:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T20:37:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-23T15:37:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T20:37:03","slug":"your-time-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Your time has come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The perennial cry of the Mac user: &#8220;haha, but I have no viruses&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/security\/208800199\" title=\"can no longer be heard\">can no longer be heard<\/a>.  Now that the Mac has become as ubiquitous as the Big Mac, those dastardly virus developers have set their sights on a new horizon.  <\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;d wager we&#8217;ll see the birth of a new virus problem targeting Macs more than PCs as PC security gets tighter and Mac users still think they are invincible.  It is like showing an auto thief a choice between a car that is locked but he knows how to disable (PC) or a car with the door open and the keys in the ignition (Mac).  Years ago the argument was that the Mac car couldn&#8217;t be stolen because it would be like driving down the street in a stolen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vector_Motors\" title=\"Vector\">Vector<\/a> &#8211; it would be hard to blend in.  Now, however, we can liken PCs to Corollas and Macs to Civics.  The Civic may look more stylish &#8211; but they can both be found on any American street and are thus equally vulnerable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perennial cry of the Mac user: &#8220;haha, but I have no viruses&#8221; can no longer be heard. Now that the Mac has become as ubiquitous as the Big Mac, those dastardly virus developers have set their sights on a new horizon. In fact, I&#8217;d wager we&#8217;ll see the birth of a new virus problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}