The Macalope Weekly: Of trolls and straw men

21.05.2011

That link is to Daring Fireball. So, let's break this apart. Bradley is accusing Gruber of being incensed by the suggestion that:

The first accusation is unmitigated crap. Here's a post by Gruber from all the way back in 2004 called, not coincidentally, , which was about the MP3Concept Trojan that a number of news sites trumpeted as the first Mac Trojan attack, despite the fact that it was a proof of concept.

No one with any sense would ever claim that Macs are impervious to viruses, worms, or Trojan horses. Especially Trojans—which just about anyone with a 3-digit IQ could put together.

Gruber does not believe Macs are invulnerable. To the Macalope's knowledge he's never said he believes Macs are invulnerable. Let's move on to the second accusation, which is more to the point. The Macalope doesn't want to put words in Gruber's mouth, but the horny one reads it more as "show me" than an out-and-out denial.

See, Gruber's critics (well, this week's crop of critics—the Macalope doesn't want to make it sound like he only has a couple) love to link to that Wolf post (Ed Bott links to it every five minutes). None of them, however, mention the to :