Well, reduced to nothing except panicked screeching, the world of Status Quo has reset to their default position on Apple: Security by obscurity. Now, though, they’ve taken the converse position.

Now that Apples are selling well, they exclaim, hackers are starting to target Macs. No, really. I got this off of Fox News (We distort. You recite.). After reporting that Mac malware is a “drop in the bucket” compared to Windows, the article quotes a “senior technology consultant” at a security company called Sophos who says the situation is getting worser and worser all the time.

The last two paragraphs are everything you need to know from the whole article:

Sophos reported Wednesday that two new Mac-based Trojans that emerged in February and June ought to shake Mac users of their misconceptions that their computers (and, eventually, iPods and iPhones) are impenetrable.

To put this in perspective, the first really pernicious piece of Mac malware emerged only in October 2007, Cluley says, suggesting that a worrisome trend is about to get worse.

Just the thought that Macs might not be the Fortress of Solitude makes me almost wet my pants.

I’m scared, Auntie Em.

Three pieces of malware. None of which have found their way to my computer. I haven’t had a malware infection on a Mac dating back to the days when System and Finder came with different version numbers.

Somehow, three new trojan horse programs are less than I’ll need to start frothing over with angst. Sorry.

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The Master’s health continues to be big news. Today he announced a hangnail and an unexplained rash on his left ankle – possibly an allergic reaction to reformulated fabric softener.

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There is speculation about Apple’s new product:

The MacBook All-Purpose Household Cleaning and Freshening Appliance and Motorcycle Tuner With Techron® And The Scent of Fresh Lemons

It will have a touch screen just like the iPhone. It will have a real keyboard just like the BlackBerry. It will have the entire catalogs of Lothar and the Hand People, Norman Greenbaum, and Timbuk 3 included. In partnership with Baskin-Robbins, Apple will sell the new device in thirty-one flavors (waffle cone or sugar cone?).

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R.I.P. Randy Pausch

If you haven’t seen his “last lecture,” you should.