In the story of the Boy That Cried Wolf the village ultimately paid the price for not being vigilant. The interpretation has always been to take it as a parable to improve personal behaviour but what I enjoy most about that tale is that it works both ways—there are two parties at fault: the attention seeker and those who took the cognitive shortcut of disregarding what the attention seeker was saying because they'd been wrong in the past.

Ohhh. When you put it like that, it sounds a little different. But, no, let's pretend not to understand that, because then we can get in a few more whacks at the straw man.

Look, we don't think Macs are invulnerable. It's patently obvious that they're not. As far as getting antivirus software, Charlie Miller, an honest-to-goodness Mac vulnerability expert, . So the Macalope will do honest-to-goodness Mac vulnerability expert one better and suggest you get some antivirus software. Why not when there are ?

And Apple? Yeah, the Macalope completely agrees the company should be helping people clear this off their Macs and should do a better job getting in front of these things.

Is that so hard to understand?