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Ancient Flaws May Leave Mac OS X Vulnerable

Posted by Zonk on from the patch-to-the-left-patch-to-the-right dept.

mdeb writes "ZDNet Australia is running a story that claims Mac OS X 'contains unpatched security flaws of a type that were fixed on alternative operating systems more than a decade ago.' As an example, in August of last year, Apple patched the 'dsidentity' bug, which could easily have been exploited to grant a non-privileged user with admin rights the capability to create and remove 'root' user accounts."

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  1. Re:Steve Gibson... by inertialmatrix · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why is this given a moderation of 5? Are you suggesting that "most apple users" are gay? It's a pretty freakin' crude statement. I thought we were all out of the middle school and high school name calling, but I guess we are not.

    In a not so subtle way you basically said
    "Hey, anyone who uses a Mac must be a fag - cause you know what the term backdoor means to those people."

    Someone mod this guy down, please.