Sheesh. Someone in the thread said it well: Macs & Cults.
An OS is an OS. Some flavor of -IX, Wintel, Mac, whatever, if it gets the job done it gets the job done.
No OS/Platform combo is user-friendly, some are just less user-hostile than others.
Computer people like to keep things somewhat arcane because in such arcane-ness is job security.
MACs are not targeted as much because of the lower number of installed base. No fun making a mess with a virus/trojan if no one notices.
BUT, and (it’s a big but), if particular Macs become High Value Targets, you can bet your bippy that hostile forces (whether some geek with too much time on his hands, or some Hostile Intelligence Service) will start attacking Macs with vigor.
As far as President Obama’s blackberry, I found this article interesting:
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/obama-may-carry-top-secret-pda/
“The product description reads: ‘Developed for the National Security Agency’s Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED) program, the Sectéra Edge is certified to protect wireless voice communications classified Top Secret and below as well as access e-mail and Web sites classified Secret and below.’ “
