Re: How is this possible in OS X?
Re: How is this possible in OS X?
- Subject: Re: How is this possible in OS X?
- From: Andrew Pinski <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:19:41 -0500
If you are root you can do anything including reading
memory of another process so root is very dangerous.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 09:51 , Matt Ronge wrote:
Hello,
I discovered this: http://www.haxies.com
It has a number of hacks for Mac OS X that can do some amazing things.
For
example you can modify the Apple Menu. How is this possible? Someone
from
the company told me that they are modifying applications memory through
daemons, but they can only modify applications run by that specific
user?
What!? How is this possible? I thought memory protection in OS X
prevented
these strange hacks from appearing?
Quotes from the author
{
There should be solid walls between applications, you shouldn't be
allowed
to do this?
There are solid walls, which limits us to what we can do, most of the
work isn't done by the app patch in memory, it's done by another
Daemon when possible (Xounds for example, it could be dangerous
(unstable) to have the applications play the sounds.
What?! Your patching another application's memory? How is this
possible?
Through hacks ;)
I don't see how it is possible to patch a program's memory besides
your own
in UNIX?
It is, but since most developers traditionally have access to unix
source, and unix isn't based on a GUI, no patches seem to have ever
been made.
}
Ok, i'm just confused. Huh?
--
Matt Ronge
President
Monkeybread Software
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com
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