Here is my schedule for the Fall semester:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

9:00 a.m. - Sales and Leasing

Monday, Wednesday

1:00 p.m. - Estate Administration
3:00 p.m. - Pretrial Litigation

Monday

6:30 p.m. - Employment Law

Tuesday, Thursday

1:00 p.m. - Estate and Gift Tax

iPhones-Macintosh computers become apples of hackers’ eyes — AFP

It’s been a long time since I have taken sides in the Microsoft-Apple war. I haven’t been one of those to throw rocks at the other side while praising my own in some time (if I even have an “own” anymore — I’m a Linux geek), because I really believe that the differences between the two are not nearly as vast as they used to be. It may be a bit more than just cosmetic differences, but the two major players have grown more alike than different over the years. Of the three major consumer operating systems, I believe that they each have their place.

One thing that I never could allow Apple fanboys to get away with saying, though, is how much more secure their favorite operating system is because it has so few viruses. It’s an oft-made error of logic to confuse causation with correlation, and it certainly doesn’t follow that one can derive the premise (the operating system is secure) from the conclusion (there are few viruses). The biggest arrow in the quiver for Apple, in this regard, has been its total lack of market share — if there aren’t a lot of Apple machines to propagate a virus, then why go to all the trouble of writing one that won’t go anywhere?

Now, the AFP is reporting that hackers are starting to take a second look at Apple now that the market share has increased. The article goes into a bit more detail, but it’s not much more than what I said above: it’s simply a cost-benefit analysis to virus writers, and now that Apple’s market share is increasing, the “benefit” to the virus writers is going up.