The US Army is the latest recruit in Apple's creeping invasion of te
rritories that used to be exclusive to other platforms.
The American military is integrating Macintoshes into their co
mputer systems to make their setup harder to hack, according to a report from Forbes.com. Lt. Col. C.J. Wallingto
n, a division chief in the Army's office of enterprise information sys
tems, says that since Macs haven't been a common target of attacks, fewer hacks
have been designed for them and adding Macs to the mix will make the Army's sy
stems less prone to destabilization with a single attack.
Apple hardware has already been working out well for the military. Wallington s
ays that X Serve servers from Apple, which have become commonp
lace equipment in the Army's systems, have proven themselves in use. Of the X S
erves, Wallington says
Those are some of the most attacked computers there are. But the at tacks used against them are designed for Windows-based machines, so they shrug them off."
