[Swordmaker]

A new vulnerability, already fixed in the new OS X.11 El Capitan, still exists in OS X.10.4 and the seeded OS X.10.5 Yosemite that allows user privilege escalation. There are no exploits in the wild yet, and if there are it requires physical possession of the target computer and Administrative access. Pretty much of a non-issue for most Mac users. — PING!

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[sargon]

(This vulnerability requires physical possession of the computer, and local Administrator access. It cannot be accomplished remotely or by a standard user. — Swordmaker)

Well then, that's a tempest in a teapot...

[BlueLancer]

Oh, so THAT’S the “white privilege” that they’ve been talking about ...

[TheBattman]

So this exploit exists in Yosemite and El Capitan... yet later in the article it says the exploit has been closed in El Capitan betas.... Ummm... ok.

I’m also trying to figure out - IF I am logged in to an administrator account, someone steals my machine - what exactly can they do that isn’t already a danger with a machine logged in as an administrator? Then again OS X Yosemite and El Capitan both require administrator password to make changes to nearly everything...