Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.

On Feb. 22, the Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set up his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and folders or install applications.

Within hours of going live, the "rm-my-mac" competition was over. The challenger posted this message on his Web site: "This sucks. Six hours later, this poor little Mac was owned, and this page got defaced."


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mac osx is just like any other OS. it has its flaws, mainly undiscovered simply because macs arent primary targets imo.

ditto imo

http://test.doit.wisc.edu/

A new challenge this time without the ability to create your own ssh accounts.

hahah, what a pointless claim to have hacked the machine in 30 mins then. that's so lame!

give me physical access to the machine and i can get root access

boot single user
passwd root <nul>