I mean security through obscurity is a real thing. It’s not real security, but the risk of attack is still lower than it would be otherwise. It’s the primary reason Macs had so little malware at the time and Apple’s marketing leveraged that for billions in advertising. Generally malware creators target the maximum number of devices, and MacOS and ChromeOS are small pickles compared to Windows. Even now, you’re looking at Windows being about 70% of the market, OSX being around 20% and Chrome OS sitting at a whopping 4%. Most malware is based around striking as many victims as possible quickly before it is discovered and the exploits patched. doesn’t matter.
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tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months agoBased on…?
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Well, a significant portion of windows users aren’t running the latest version. Heck, you can hardly get people to install a security update on windows.
ChromeOS doesn’t really need a virus anyway because the whole OS is leaking your info back to Google anyhow.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can’t run viruses if you can’t run anything /s