{"id":41025,"date":"2021-05-24T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/apple-is-happy-to-diss-the-desktop-it-knows-whos-got-the-most-to-lose\/"},"modified":"2021-05-24T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T09:01:06","slug":"apple-is-happy-to-diss-the-desktop-it-knows-whos-got-the-most-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/apple-is-happy-to-diss-the-desktop-it-knows-whos-got-the-most-to-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple is happy to diss the desktop \u2013 it knows who&#8217;s got the most to lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-label=\"column\">Column<\/span> You will have noticed that Apple just pushed MacOS under the wolves, thrown it to the bus and left it hanging out to dry like a post-Brexit fishing net.<\/p>\n<p>In the ever-enthralling Epic Games versus Apple court case, the latter\u2019s software supremo <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/05\/20\/epic_macos_malware\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Federighi trash-talked his own operating system<\/a>. MacOS was sub-par for security, couldn\u2019t hold a match to iOS&#8217;s mighty walls. A more wretched hive of scum and villainy you could not find. Apple said this? In court? Game over, surely.<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast. Earlier in the same case, an expert witness wheeled in by Epic, Professor <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2019\/02\/21\/privacy_applications\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Mickens<\/a> of Harvard, said that there really wasn\u2019t much difference between the inherent security in iOS and its App Store, the Android ecosystem, or indeed MacOS.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,leaderboard,mpu,\" data-lg=\",fluid,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,superleaderboard,billboard,leaderboard,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With only a few minutes spent on human evaluation of iOS apps at Apple, he said, and those used on a tick-list of five areas mostly taken care of by the OS\u2019s own features anyway, how could it be otherwise? Professor Mickens, who had worked for Microsoft for eight years until 2015, did say he reached his conclusions from articles and books, and he does describe himself as an &#8220;authority on everything&#8221; on his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mickens.seas.harvard.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stratospherically self-assured Harvard bio<\/a>, so make your own mind up about his testimony.<\/p>\n<p>So strike from your mind the notion that expert witnesses don\u2019t spin like washing machines. The judge herself noted with exasperation that everyone was talking past each other, describing very different versions of the matters at hand, and she was going to have to work very hard to pull it all together. In court, computer companies are like someone who minimises their income for the taxman and maximises it for the mortgage company. Actual reality is entirely contingent on strategic need.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"> <span>So, where\u2019s the truth?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>Fortunately for us, we live that truth every day. We are all geeks of the world. We all have our favourite OS and mobile platform, but we all know, and often use, many different options at work, rest and play. It is not uncommon for the well-balanced tech maven to have an Android in one pocket, an iPhone in another, a Windows VM in a Linux desktop and a Linux VM in a Windows desktop. Some even have Macbooks, which admittedly is going a bit far. We don\u2019t need telling what the security experience is on all of the above, even if we\u2019re not explicitly charged with worrying about that for our line of work.<\/p>\n<p>And desktop OSes are more vulnerable than mobile OSes, purely because they\u2019re general purpose tools designed to run arbitrary code from arbitrary sources. It\u2019s not like the old days, when MacOS\u2019s Unix architecture underpinnings gave it multiuser DNA with a much longer track record of defence than Windows\u2019 legacy of single user on a disconnected PC. That counted for a lot, once. No longer.<\/p>\n<p>And mobile OSes are app-centric, and are designed to shield the user: you can certainly get malware, but you have to try harder.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the growth of the sandboxed browser model, most obviously expressed in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/02\/08\/column_windows_cloud_os_vs_google_chrome\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chromebooks<\/a> bringing mobile security sensibilities into the edge of the desktop, the basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety. Nor should it.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,leaderboard,mpu,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>But it has to be seen for what it is, a chainsaw that\u2019ll as cheerfully rip into your femoral artery as cut down the tallest tree in the forest. For professionals who need that power &#8211; creators of digital content, developers, scientists, engineers &#8211; the idea of working in a mobile OS model is mostly horrible.<\/p>\n<p>For household users who Netflix and Facebook and game and email, not having to worry about all the hairy-arse crevices of a desktop OS is something we should all devoutly wish for.<\/p>\n<p>Where the desktop OS still dominates, and where it should be shot, butchered and melted down for glue, is on the desks of enterprise workforces.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YKuQzR4oKJ-939go2eTN0AAAAMU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Microsoft makes its bread and butter off enterprise Windows licensing, so of course it is utterly wedded to its huge corporate customer base sticking with the mutant offspring of Windows 3.1. And it is true that Win10 in a well-maintained enterprise environment is no more inherently vulnerable than Apple or Linux would be, were that ever to happen. But all three are the wrong answer to 21st century general business computing needs.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Apple admitted in court, and that\u2019s a far more dangerous perception for Microsoft to deal with. Apple is, after all, the professional\u2019s platform, for reasons just as historical as Microsoft\u2019s dominance in the enterprise. It still has the advantage of not being as tempting a target to corporate extortioners as Windows, because the reason you rob banks is the reason you hack Microsoft. That\u2019s where the money is.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s move to a minimal, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/02\/03\/windows_10_cloud_config\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ChromeOS-esque desktop mode<\/a>l is one choice. For Redmond to cede ground to that model in the enterprise is another. That the hive workers of business carry on using the massive Win10 apparatus to access their browser-based HR leave request forms, while IT support and the dark knights of ransomware battle it out, is no option at all. And Apple will swear to that in court. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/05\/24\/desktop_os\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also: The basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety. 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