On Crying 'Wolf' and On Calling Out Those Who Cry 'Wolf'
[Crying Wolf](http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/crying_wolf) is a 2004 article by [John Gruber/Daring Fireball](http://daringfireball.net) about a Mac OS X trojan horse and (perhaps more importantly) how the tech press reacted to it. In May 2011, John wrote [Wolf!](http://daringfireball.net/2011/05/wolf), an overview of "the impending malware crisis" on Mac OS X from May 2011 (when it was written) back to October 2004. The moral of the story being that people have been saying *The End Is Near* for almost as long as OS X has been around. However, as [Guy English pointed out](http://kickingbear.com/blog/archives/166) (a link which I discovered via [Daring Fireball](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/06/english-wolf)) the moral of the story of the boy who cried wolf is *not* just about the boy, but about the village which failed to pay heed because they had heard this warning before and chose to ignore it. A reasonable person should read all three of the above articles because they should know that: a) dire predictions of malware on Mac OS X "any moment now" have been happening for almost a decade (and, therefore, new predictions should be taken with sufficient 'grains of salt'). b) just because these predictions have been wrong does not mean that there will *never* be malware on Mac OS X. The key is to find the proper balance between the two.