Macs fight pcs.. 2004-01-28 - By grimmwerks
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Interesting little tidbit from another list I'm on:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35175.html
> Dave had some surprises up his sleeve as well. You'll remember that I said he
> was using a ThinkPad (running Windows!). I asked him about that, and he told
> us that many of the computer security folks back at FBI HQ use Macs running OS
> X, since those machines can do just about anything: run software for Mac,
> Unix, or Windows, using either a GUI or the command line. And they're secure
> out of the box. In the field, however, they don't have as much money to spend,
> so they have to stretch their dollars by buying WinTel-based hardware. Are you
> listening, Apple? The FBI wants to buy your stuff. Talk to them!
>
> Dave also had a great quotation for us: "If you're a bad guy and you want to
> frustrate law enforcement, use a Mac." Basically, police and government
> agencies know what to do with seized Windows machines. They can recover
> whatever information they want, with tools that they've used countless times.
> The same holds true, but to a lesser degree, for Unix-based machines. But Macs
> evidently stymie most law enforcement personnel. They just don't know how to
> recover data on them. So what do they do? By and large, law enforcement
> personnel in American end up sending impounded Macs needing data recovery to
> the acknowledged North American Mac experts: the Royal Canadian Mounted
> Police. Evidently the Mounties have built up a knowledge and technique for Mac
> forensics that is second to none.
>
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