Sean Higgins › Comments

Yes, 503 error or blank page? - Iñaki Rodriguez

Was it "Steve'd"? - Kevan Emmott

i'm seeing all kinds of errors on my ops stats - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

It's the AT&T of social media. Given a big event it'll be down... :) - Thomas

Sheesh; it was just down last night. - Christopher A Carr

lame. - Veronica

Yes, you are. I'm telling Ryan that you aren't giving your sole undivided attention to the gdgt live coverage. - Paul Reynolds

Ya its down :( Throwing 503 error for me. - Vikas SN

Actually, I have it auto-refreshing in the window next to this one - Veronica

Can we attribute this to the Apple event chatter? Coincidence? - Rolf Schewe

down - Dave "Freedom 35"

I'm sure it's purely a coincidence, Rolf ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Indeed. Says: "HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request" - Rolf Schewe

i'm seeing oauth verify and login errors in my system logs - twitter ops are not having a good morning it seems - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Definitely down. - Robert Scoble

yup - Johnny

yeah, apple event I beat - Jeffrey

ok - RADAR-DZ

API access seems to be working for some. - Steven Walling

down. - niccolò vecchia

Ken: I guess it's just that I usually don't refreshing it this much and happen to notice it this time. - Rolf Schewe

Still the apple event makes me miss twitter a bit less - Jorge

Back up for me. - Rolf Schewe

I know I'm more than a bit biased, but I love the autorefreshing on gdgt! I don't even have to be in that window to watch it go by. - Veronica

Back up - but for how long... :) - Thomas

error rate is down to the normal level - you should be seeing data now - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

I jumped to friendfeed to get my info. - Sean Higgins

AGAIN!? - Kevin Yanes

What's incomplete? It took three months to find that the mints were not drugs, nor were drugs found. - jcunwired

That is seriously jacked. - Victor Ganata

Mentos, the jail maker! - Richard Bitting

Vista and Windows 7, both have UAC, both are secure -- - Bryce Campbell

All of them can be secure, it's more about the user. If you do stupid things then nothing is secure. :) But traditionally OSX has less people trying to break it. - Nick Young

Define "secure" -- do you mean idiot proof, virus proof, or hacker proof? If you mean the first, then maybe OS X gets to play. Windows 7 is definitely more idiot proof than those which have gone before. But when it comes to hackers and viruses and trojans, it seems like a toss up between 7 and Vista -- XP, of course, comes in barely above OSX in that department. - Joel Bennett

None of them is more secure... they all have their vulnerabilities. I feel bad sometimes for the people out there thinking that their OS is either "Hacker Proof" or "Virus Proof " .... No such thing guys unfortunately. To sum this up i will quote Chris Pirillo : " Every operating system sucks " ;) - Konstantinos Ntantoulis

n number of critical updates. Completely meaningless. XP or Vista, I've had to clean up conficker from both OSes recently and that sucked. - Paul Grav

To say anything is idiot proof is crazy. As OSX becomes more prevalent you will see it attacked. Right now it's not worth the effort for virus and spyware developers to bother. I would bet OSX is no more secure than any Windows version. Just no one cares enough to pound too hard on it. - BigMonkGames

The goal has to be to become a more secure *user*, and educate those that you have to support (though understandably that can be hard). When my dad's laptop was "MS Anti-Spyware'd" earlier in the year, I ended up putting Ubuntu on it. At least that way an entire class of viruses were no longer going to be a problem. - G. Sigh

I agree with G. Sigh. The OS and applications will always have issues - too many people with too much time on their hands attacking them. I think we as users need to take more responsibility for being safe in our habits on the Internet. - Sean Higgins

Leo Nailed it in the first comment. - Parth Awasthi

Security is a process... not a feature - Chris Heath

they all have bugs, but OS security doesn't matter anywhere near as much as it used to. what really matters: /passwords/ and a good eye for phishing/trojans. the most damaging attacks are the ones that enable identity theft, and those are enabled by using shitty passwords, or worse, using the same shitty password on many sites. - mjc

What's important is the user level settings. If you run as root in any BSD it's almost as bad as XP, where you need to run as admin to get anything done. OSX is more secure because it buries the root user deep within the OS. If you can operate as a limited user in any OS, it's more secure. - Robert Hafer from iPhone

OS X Leopard has had 23 major security updates in the same period of time, most of them fixing multiple vulnerabilities. Why is it inherently more secure? - Ed Bott

Ed, tiny market share, tiny target - Chris Heath