Prevent Insecure Booting Of Your Mac

maxphunk writes "So you can boot anyone's Mac using a CD or (for newer machines) mount the hard drive using target disk mode. Therefore, your machine isn't secure, right? Stock, yes; otherwise, no. Apple has a neato utility described here that eliminates this problem and more, using Open Firmware Password Protection. I have installed it on my iBook (late 2001) and I am definitely pleased with the results." It requires Mac OS X 10.1 or greater, and prevents things like starting up in single user mode, verbose mode, resetting PRAM, and more.

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im screwed!

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now how am i supposed to install things on the schools macs that i need. the lazy IT department will not install anything, regardless of purpose.

we hacked an entire room of G4's just to put on our Wacom drivers so we could use our tablets to do homework.