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Date: Thu Nov 24 00:17:07 2005
From: eballen1 at qwest.net (Bruce Ediger)
Subject: SANS Top 20: Mac OS X?

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Michael Holstein wrote:

> The fact that Mac users are an elitist group that believes themselves 
> invulnerable to viruses/etc doesn't help either.

What, is an OSX virus or worm going around?  Has anybody got details?

Or is this just the old NeXTStep problem where a Mach task (as opposed
to "Unix process implemented as a Mach task") created by any user ID
ran as root?

I never did the fiddling to get filesystem access from a Mach task,
but I heard that it was easily possible.