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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 ~ |
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