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Story: Finder flaw exposes OS X users

Posted by: Doug Petrosky (Wednesday 22 February 2006, 5:35 PM)

Rename the terminal.app. This will completely protect you from this type of attack.

I'm looking into a second method where by unix permissions are set on the terminal such that an admin password is necessary to run it.

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