By Robert Lemos
Published: Wednesday 26 May 2004
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Craig
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Newcastle
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Tech Support
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The vulnerability which can place a file on your hard drive in no way by-passes OS X security. It can only operate within the permissions of the currently logged in user. Files can be overwritten, yes, but only if the user has write perimissions to those files. A user can loose files in their home folder, but files that they don't have write permisson on (the Mac OS X system files, for example) cannot be touched. With proper backups, this isn't half a bad as you make out.
More info on Unsanity's Paranoid Android is here: www.unsanity.com/haxies/pa. Free download, of course. Shouldn't this have been in your story Silicon?
There has yet to be a recorded example of a malicious implementation of this vulnerability and the 'trojan' programs that the press have made such a fuss about. Can this be because Mac users don't want to attack each other, despite how much other people want them to?
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