Following up on the rm-my-mac news, this topic was picked up on the Cult of Mac Weblog. Their take on what happened? Check it out:
In addition, the owner of the challenge site notes that the computer is "on a shitty wireless network." Shitty wireless networks typically have shitty encryption. This whole thing is about as far from a test of OS X's security as you can get.
So according to that theory, the hacker flew to Sweden, found this guy's house, sat outside it in a car to gather network traffic, cracked the WEP key, intercepted some cleartext communication (for example a telnet session) to gain access to the root password, and then rooted the box.
Sure. That's clearly more likely than Apple having a 0day...
Posted by Ed at March 7, 2006 11:59 AM