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My school had the then-new iMacs. Everything locked down so if you double-clicked an application in finder and its four-letter code was not on the whitelist, it
by red_admiral 8y ago
My school had the then-new iMacs. Everything locked down so if you double-clicked an application in finder and its four-letter code was not on the whitelist, it wouldn't let you in.
But we had IE for mac installed, and if you made a HTML file linking to any application, IE would happily launch it for you. At which point I downloaded and ran ResEdit ...
- abrowne 8y agoSimilarly, I found a telnet: link would open Terminal, where open -a would open any app ;-)
- mattkevan 8y agoWhen I started at university, the IT department had just upgraded a load of classic Mac LCs to PowerMac G4s with 10.2 Jaguar. Clearly they’d never encountered OS X before as they locked down the systems in the most ham-fisted way possible. It was the work of a moment to get round the restrictions. I felt bad about it, but had to be done as I couldn’t actually do my coursework without.
- huebnerob 8y agoWe had eMacs, each with an Apple "Mighty" Mouse (yes they really called them that at first). I eventually figured out that you could map anything you wanted to the scroll ball click in the Mouse preferences pane, and it subverted all the restrictions. Ah, the days of naive computer security, now everything is cryptographically signed six ways from Sunday out of necessity.