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Mac OS X hacked in less than 30 minutes

Posted on 03.06.06 by templeton @ 2:04 am

Gaining root access to a Mac is “easy pickings,” according to an individual who in less than 30 minutes won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.

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