To: general_re
Commence finger-pointing, hand-waving, gloating - whatever your cup of tea happens to be...
2 posted on
11/26/2003 1:32:51 PM PST by
general_re
(Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance.)
To: Bush2000
Darn the luck! Happy Thanksgiving, Steve!
To: general_re
Don't point the finger at this Mac user, who realizes our safety is only in our (small) numbers.
Do you know if Norton Personal Firewall protects against this problem? My guess would be yes (tentative sigh of relief).
To: *Macuser_list
ping!
5 posted on
11/26/2003 1:40:29 PM PST by
Vermonter
To: HAL9000; steve-b; ThinkDifferent; Liberal Classic; MarkL; FastCoyote; adam_az
Repeat after me: "OSX is se-currrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre....." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
6 posted on
11/26/2003 1:41:10 PM PST by
Bush2000
To: general_re
:~)
7 posted on
11/26/2003 1:43:12 PM PST by
CyberCowboy777
(He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel.)
To: general_re
Bump.
20 posted on
11/26/2003 2:08:38 PM PST by
First_Salute
(God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
To: Paul Atreides
Giggle.
25 posted on
11/26/2003 2:16:23 PM PST by
martin_fierro
(_____oooo_(_°_¿_°_)_oooo_____)
To: general_re
Heh, heh!
26 posted on
11/26/2003 2:18:19 PM PST by
Paul Atreides
(Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
To: general_re
I usually avoid the PC v Mac threads but, I haven't seen the usual so I will ask (and answer) the question.
'Got Root?'
well yes, as a matter of fact I do.
37 posted on
11/26/2003 3:20:20 PM PST by
Vinnie
To: general_re
In most cases, the Mac will need to be booted into the malicious environment to be exploitable by this flaw. (The netinfod process must be restarted to cause the malicious server to be inserted into the authentication source list.)Nothing to see here folks, move along.
40 posted on
11/26/2003 4:35:28 PM PST by
SengirV
To: general_re
I find it amusing to see all of the posters on here gloating over a minor security breech that may allow a hacker to get to the "root" level of a Mac OSX system impact a few computers hooked up to a network with a bad guy on it.
Why is that amusing?
Because 99.9% of Windows users are already at least as exposed since they already are operating in what is essentially the "root" level of Windows and any hacker who gains access to their computer can do anything he likes to their computers without having to jump through these hoops to do the damage that theoretically MIGHT be done to one or two Macs on a network with a hypothetical rouge server!
That is funny.
To: general_re
heh heh heh. That ought to wipe the smug grins off a few faces. Apple's OS-whatever has its roots in unix derivatives. Hackable? You betcha.
49 posted on
11/26/2003 8:12:52 PM PST by
Noumenon
(I don't have enough guns and ammo to start a war - but I do have enough to finish one.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson