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About OS X 'trojan horses'
Authored by: arondale on May 12, '04 01:44:02PM

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.

Now you've just told both coders and non-coders alike how to walk into an apple store or university and cause destruction in less than 10 seconds at an apple keyboard.

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I agree, sort of...
Authored by: GORDYmac on May 12, '04 02:18:26PM

...those who would do such a thing probably would find a way, anyway. But I do feel uncomfortable reading it here.



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About OS X 'trojan horses'
Authored by: rabbit101 on May 12, '04 06:27:27PM

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).



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Meh
Authored by: Dogcow on May 13, '04 12:20:35AM

Any mac sys admin worth anything knows to not allow basic users access to the terminal.

-Dogcow "moof!"



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About OS X 'trojan horses'
Authored by: davidbodonnell on May 13, '04 03:42:41PM

People who are malicious at heart are going to find far worse things to do to others than tricking them into executing rm -rfd ~



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