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Forbes says the US Army are Apple fanboys too
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- IT TOPICS:Macintosh & Apple, Security
According to Forbes, the US Army is adopting Macs to help diversify their operational platforms which could help in the event of a cyber attack. There was no mention of iTunes and Garage Band being used to help with interrogations, however.
Security is the theme of the Army's adoption of the Macintosh platform. Whether it is security through obscurity, as many point out, or its UNIX underpinnings, Macs don't get hacked as much as Windows-based computers. But the Army?
Forbes states:
Given Apple's marketing toward the young and the trendy, you wouldn't expect the U.S. Army to be much of a customer. Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping hackers won't expect it either.
Wallington, a division chief in the Army's office of enterprise information systems, says the military is quietly working to integrate Macintosh computers into its systems to make them harder to hack. That's because fewer attacks have been designed to infiltrate Mac computers, and adding more Macs to the military's computer mix makes it tougher to destabilize a group of military computers with a single attack, Wallington says.
This past year was a particularly tough one for military cybersecurity. Cyberspies infiltrated a Pentagon computer system in June and stole unknown quantities of e-mail data, according to a September report by the Financial Times. Later in September, industry sources told Forbes.com that major military contractors.
Whatever the case is, it looks like Apple has opened up a new market in the War on Microsoft.
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