On Friday, March 30, 2001, at 02:41 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
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> Well... most flavors of unix allow you to start up in single user mode
> and do pretty much the same thing...
>
Yeah, I did forget about that. Well if this flaw is in every OS, at
least Apple is making it look cooler than anyone else.
Michael
> Basically, if someone has physical access to the machine, all bets are
> off.. which is kind of how it should be if you follow the Apple way of
> thinking..
>
> -japheth "jc" cleaver
> san diego state university
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>> That is a crazy feature of OS X I think. You can just walk up to a
>> box with OS X on it with an install CD, reset the password and have
>> free reign? That sounds a little dangerous.
>>
>> Michael
>>
