# Mac OS X Root Level Hacked in 30 Minutes **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959 **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [March 6, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959 "2006-03-06T17:24:16Z") **Posts on this page:** 9 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT) #### Post date: [March 6, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959/1 "2006-03-06T17:24:16Z")
This one is for my good buddy McGinnis… [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20060306/tc\_nf/41948](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20060306/tc_nf/41948) 🤣 ---
### Author: ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus) #### Post date: [March 6, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959/2 "2006-03-06T17:26:58Z")
:snky: ---
### Author: ![PsngrSeatsR4Boys](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/psngrseatsr4boys/32/3078_2.png) [@PsngrSeatsR4Boys](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PsngrSeatsR4Boys) #### Post date: [March 6, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959/3 "2006-03-06T18:04:51Z")
is my mac still going to be safe? ---
### Author: ![Rx3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rx3/32/7194_2.png) [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3) #### Post date: [March 6, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959/4 "2006-03-06T18:09:08Z")
Damn, I knew it was possible, but 30 minutes? ---
### Author: ![neurokinetik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/neurokinetik/32/7270_2.png) [@neurokinetik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neurokinetik) #### Post date: [March 6, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959/5 "2006-03-06T18:27:14Z")
Bah, they’ve only had security by obscurity… Nobody hacks them because nobody cares enough to do it. 😛 ---
### Author: ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1) #### Post date: [March 6, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959/6 "2006-03-06T18:31:40Z")
^^^ so true. ---
### Author: ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon) #### Post date: [March 6, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959/7 "2006-03-06T18:58:17Z")
^^^ +2 ---
### Author: ![itsJim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@itsJim](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/itsJim) #### Post date: [March 6, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959/8 "2006-03-06T21:42:09Z")
They also hacked it because they were given a shell account… They just didn’t break into it… A local vulnerability is completely different than a remote vulnerability (not that they aren’t as important) ---
### Author: ![73ghia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/8baadc/32.png) [@73ghia](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/73ghia) #### Post date: [March 7, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-os-x-root-level-hacked-in-30-minutes/8959/9 "2006-03-07T04:31:49Z")
> [@neurokinetik](#): > > Bah, they’ve only had security by obscurity… Nobody hacks them because nobody cares enough to do it. 😛 That is so true… Meanwhile I"ll enjoy my virus-free… Hacker Free, Stable comptuer. \*nix is such an obscure OS that I think that everyone should be affraid of mac osx. As was mentioned the “hacker” was given a shell account… so it wasn’t much of an outside Job. I’m sure if you did the same test on a windows machine it would net the same result. It’s a LOT easier to hack if you have an account.