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Re: Sony DRM CDs infect Macs, too
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:14:52 +1300
Blue Boar wrote:
That'll show all you smug Mac bastards!
Well, technically, this "trick" can be pulled against any OS that supports CD media and has something vaguely akin to Windows' "autorun" functionality. Of course, depending on the privileges needed to run the "installer" (or whatever the application is that auto-runs) and the availability of those to a "normal user" determines the overall effectiveness of the "trick" on each potential target OS. I strongly suspect that things like this SunnComm DRM (and other "enhanced content" installers, not necessarily DRM) will make "normal" OS X users (as opposed to uber-geek OS X users) much less suspicious of the "give me root" dialog that pops up as a result of inserting such a CD in an OS X machine, and similarly, typical Windows users will equally quickly "learn" just to type in their admin password when confronted with such things after Vista is released... I mean, in the battle between enabling the pink flying elephant feature and improved security, does anyone at MS or Apple really believe that requiring a SOHO user to type in their administrator or root password is really going to be a serious impediment to the installation of (ultimately unwanted) pink flying elephant features? Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Sony DRM CDs infect Macs, too Fergie (Nov 10)
- Re: Sony DRM CDs infect Macs, too Blue Boar (Nov 10)
- Re: Sony DRM CDs infect Macs, too Steven Champeon (Nov 10)
- Re: Sony DRM CDs infect Macs, too Nick FitzGerald (Nov 10)
- Re: Sony DRM CDs infect Macs, too Paul Schmehl (Nov 10)
- Re: Sony DRM CDs infect Macs, too Nick FitzGerald (Nov 10)
- Re: Sony DRM CDs infect Macs, too Blue Boar (Nov 10)