Safety by virtue of running MacOSX isn't enough anymore. Not that I'd argue it ever was totally safe/enough in the first place.
Bad habits are what subject one to attacks more than anything else... and that's basically what Apple cultivated in their users through ignorance of threat mechanisms.
>Bad habits are what subject one to attacks more than anything else... and that's basically what Apple cultivated in their users through ignorance of threat mechanisms.
This. 100 times this. The end user is the weakest link in your security chain, and the way Apple implements abstraction in MacOS makes it really difficult for the end user to understand what exactly they're doing, and what effect it has on their overall security.
Most of the safety has always been in being a minority platform, and consequently I don't think the threat level has really changed all that much over the past ten years. Apple are really hitting the gas right now with their SIP work and the immutable OS volume and such.
By version, MacOSX is faring worse.
By total history despite a good chunk of old Windows malware not being net capable or able to run in current modes... perhaps.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/12/21134681/mac-pc-virus-m...
Safety by virtue of running MacOSX isn't enough anymore. Not that I'd argue it ever was totally safe/enough in the first place.
Bad habits are what subject one to attacks more than anything else... and that's basically what Apple cultivated in their users through ignorance of threat mechanisms.