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[andi petculescu]

Who are you,  macmechanic at fastmail.fm ?

Can we trust this message? At first glance it looks suspicios to me. I 
haven't followed the link.
(Maybe it's only my paranoia. If it is, I apologize.)

-Andi

At 03:54 PM 3/6/2006, you wrote:


>Folks,
>
>A serious security breach of OS X
>
>
><http://rixstep.com/1/20060306,00.shtml>
>
>"Rogue code and trojans resident on an OS X machine don't have to work
>overtime to 'get root'. If they're patient they'll have it on next boot
>with no effort made at all.
>
>Any process running in an admin account (and sometimes below) can
>corrupt the OS X boot sequence to get arbitrary code to run as root."
>
>I downloaded the proof of concept and it works . . .  (I trust these
>folks as I use their ACP software)>
>
>
>--
>
>   macmechanic at fastmail.fm
>
>--
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