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Re: [Full-disclosure] SANS Top 20: Mac OS X?
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- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] SANS Top 20: Mac OS X?
- From: "Bruce Ediger" <eballen1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:16:58 -0700 (MST)
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Michael Holstein wrote:
The fact that Mac users are an elitist group that believes themselves
invulnerable to viruses/etc doesn't help either.
What, is an OSX virus or worm going around? Has anybody got details?
Or is this just the old NeXTStep problem where a Mach task (as opposed
to "Unix process implemented as a Mach task") created by any user ID
ran as root?
I never did the fiddling to get filesystem access from a Mach task,
but I heard that it was easily possible.
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