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About OS X 'trojan horses'
Worse would be to insert this unix command into the ID tag of an MP3 (or picture) file. Intego has already shown how easy this is to do.
About OS X 'trojan horses'
Although it is no secret, it is better not to post things like this, IMO. I would guess far more people would try this script out on someone else's computer than the chance of someone actually getting this script through an email, image, etc.
I agree, sort of...
...those who would do such a thing probably would find a way, anyway. But I do feel uncomfortable reading it here.
About OS X 'trojan horses'
Actually, I disagree. You would probably learn this command within the first 30 minutes of your first ever Unix class. Trying to keep it a secret is like trying to prevent people from understanding why something so simple as pulling a trigger or lighting a match can be devastating and used maliciously, which makes them sitting ducks for the sorts of socially-engineered computer 'tricks' that are just now appearing on the Mac horizon (and are much more difficult than viruses to prevent since they rely on loopholes in *humans* instead of computers).
Meh
Any mac sys admin worth anything knows to not allow basic users access to the terminal.
About OS X 'trojan horses'
People who are malicious at heart are going to find far worse things to do to others than tricking them into executing rm -rfd ~
About OS X 'trojan horses'
That's misleading. Sure, it looked like it was in the ID3 tag info but it's not a real ID3 tag, it was just benefitting from the way an MP3 file is constructed to make itself both an MP3 file and an executable. |
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