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To: null and void

How is that possible? MACs aren’t like Windows machines in that if you’re not careful, you’re logging in under the admin account.

Last time I messed with a MAC, I seem to remember that you get a pop up asking you to put in the admin password if you’re doing any task that require rights. Now if you got the dialog box and entered the admin password during normal operations, you blew it. No amount of security in the world will help any user who blindingly inputs their admin pw.


11 posted on 04/05/2012 9:26:35 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Lx

Yeah people get that popup and provide their password without bothering to find out what they’re allowing. The biggest security hole is always the people, that’s why trojans are the most successful form of malware, the hole a virus uses will eventually get patched, there is no patch for the click happy human hole.


14 posted on 04/05/2012 9:29:31 AM PDT by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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To: Lx
MACs aren’t like Windows machines in that if you’re not careful, you’re logging in under the admin account.
How does that work? I have absolutely never accidentally logged in as admin under Windows.
16 posted on 04/05/2012 9:33:55 AM PDT by cartan
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To: Lx

Yep. Even the best of us will occasionally get stupid.


17 posted on 04/05/2012 9:36:21 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1171 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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