agent_blue writes “the army is integrating Macs into their IT community to thwart hack makes an attempt. The Mac platform, they argue, is safer because there are fewer attacks against OS X than home windows-based systems. ‘militia procurement has lengthy been pushed through cost and availability of further device–two measures where Macintosh computer systems have usually come up quick towards windows-based PCs. Then there had been subtle but vital boundaries: for instance, Macintosh computers have long been incompatible with a security keycard-reading machine known as fashionable get entry to cards device, or CAC, which is heavily used by the armed forces. the military’s Apple program, created [in 2005], is working to alter that.'”
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