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Apple Releases Mac OS X Leopard Security Guide

Posted by timothy on from the to-prevent-worms dept.

Wormfan writes to share ZDNet's brief mention of and a link to "Apple's release of a ~250 page PDF of security best-practices and tips to protect Mac OS X Leopard clients. The guide is aimed at experienced users, Apple says, familiar with the Terminal application and its command-line interface."

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  1. Re:They lied! by tbuddy23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is why on my grandmother's machine I put a hardware lock, set firmware password, enabled stealth network mode and secured virtual memory. I will be damned if those dirty hackers find out which bunt cake recipes she has been looking at.

  2. Re:argh: all my passwords contain a capital "U" by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody know the reason for this?

    From this page on Open Firmware passwords, they list the following:
    Blocks the ability to use the "C" key to start up from an optical disc.
    Blocks the ability to use the "N" key to start up from a NetBoot server.
    Blocks the ability to use the "T" key to start up in Target Disk Mode (on computers that offer this feature).

    I wonder if the missing U has something to do with those... : p

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  3. Re:argh: all my passwords contain a capital "U" by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple is a US based company

    Only in Soviet Russia, passwords contain U.

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