3 ms·
you know googling how to hack a mac reveals several results which although don't use the same method use similarly easy hacks... there is a file you can remove
by jheriko 13y ago
you know googling how to hack a mac reveals several results which although don't use the same method use similarly easy hacks... there is a file you can remove or add which 'resets' the machine to how it came out of the factory (but does not delete any files, including the user folder)
example: http://www.hackmac.org/tutorials/how-to-create-a-new-administrator-account/ http://www.hackmac.org/tutorials/how-to-create-a-new-adminis...
hacking with physical access is not usually difficult.
- jwr 13y agoThis (including the original article) is all hogwash. All that Mac users have to do is to go into Security preferences and click "Turn On FileVault". No solution provides absolute security. But FileVault really goes a long way. Read the original article to the end: it says that this "attack" doesn't work on machines encrypted with FileVault. Neither does the ages-old single-user-boot technique from the article you linked to.
- jheriko 13y agoright, but in reality i used that google search result to root a mac in our office. i'm sure filevault works, but bad defaults are security bugs as well...