Apples For The Army

Given Apple’s marketing toward the young and the trendy, you wouldn’t expect the US Army to be much of a customer. Lieutenant Colonel CJ Wallington is hoping hackers won’t expect it either. Wallington, a division chief in the Army’s office of enterprise information systems, says the military is quietly working to integrate Macintosh computers into its systems to make them harder to hack. That’s because fewer attacks have been designed to infiltrate Mac computers, and adding more Macs to the military’s computer mix makes it tougher to destabilise a group of military computers with a single attack, Wallington says