Being a Mac user is like being a Navy SEAL: a small, elite group of people with access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, who everyone calls on to get the really tough jobs done quickly and efficiently. Unknown Mac Power Users did a podcast about the worst case scenarios that can happen on the computer — as the name says, specifically when using a Mac. Times have changed since the quotation above — Macs have gone mainstream, the user base is far broader, and it’s much more profitable now than ever to write malware for the Mac. It strikes a chord, given that most of my possessions (books, movies) and works (books and other … stuff) are digital, so a lightning could kill all my data (but then again, it could kill me as well ;-)). So I’m into backups and risk prevention and found the podcast well-worth listening to (not much new for me, but it reminded me of a few things). And yeah, with digital, an ounce prevention is worth … well, giving that your data can vanish, what’s the price you put on it? Especially if you are working on things you cannot recreate [...]
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