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Re: mac trojan in-the-wild
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:49:10 -0400
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:23:50 MDT, "Dr. Neal Krawetz" said:
However, I don't know any Mac users who are not also Windows users. And ever Mac user I know (in and out of the security field) are much more cautious about their systems.
Statisticians call this a self-selection bias. There's an exceedingly high probability that even those Mac users that you know outside the security field have a different attitude for security, just because they know Dr. Neal Krawetz. You're not allowed to extrapolate from "The ones I know" to "all" unless you can show that the two sample populations are, in fact, equivalent.
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- RE: mac trojan in-the-wild Larry Seltzer (Oct 31)
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- Re: mac trojan in-the-wild Dude VanWinkle (Oct 31)
- Re: mac trojan in-the-wild Dr. Neal Krawetz (Nov 01)
- Re: mac trojan in-the-wild Drsolly (Nov 01)
- RE: mac trojan in-the-wild Alex Eckelberry (Nov 01)
- Re: mac trojan in-the-wild Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 01)
- Re: mac trojan in-the-wild Dude VanWinkle (Nov 01)
- RE: mac trojan in-the-wild David Harley (Nov 02)
- RE: mac trojan in-the-wild Alex Eckelberry (Nov 02)
- RE: mac trojan in-the-wild David Harley (Nov 02)
- RE: mac trojan in-the-wild Larry Seltzer (Nov 03)
- RE: mac trojan in-the-wild Nick FitzGerald (Nov 03)
- RE: mac trojan in-the-wild Larry Seltzer (Nov 03)
- RE: mac trojan in-the-wild Gadi Evron (Nov 03)
- Re: mac trojan in-the-wild Dude VanWinkle (Nov 05)
- Re: mac trojan in-the-wild Gadi Evron (Nov 05)