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  • Subject: Re: question.....
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:58:05 -0500

On 5/21/04 11:03 AM, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:

> It's even worse that THAT!
>
> This is a startup script made to be installed by booting from disk or
> firewire:
>
> http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Mac/Hacker.txt
>
> As you can see, this would report all your stuff to the "hacker" user
> without you ever knowing it.

The fact that there's really no security on /Library/StartupItems is well
known, and a real sore spot with a lot of us, but I imagine it's going to
take someone doing evil with it to get it fixed. Why you don't need root
privileges to create something that runs as root is just inane.

john

--
AppleScript is what Macs are for.
The rest is just meat tricks.

john c welch
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