Mac OS X hacked in less than 30 minutes

“Gaining root access to a Mac is ‘easy pickings,’ according to an individual who in less than 30 minutes won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.” I’m sure this is going to spread like wildfire across the Internets today, but let me [...]

OSx86 10.4.4 Security Broken

Apple’s hardware based platform-protection for Mac OS X has been broken. What has it been, a month or less since the hardware was released? Artificially restricting people from something they want (enough to actually buy it, even!) combined with an interesting challenge for hackers by using new protection methods is a good way to get [...]

Taming Apple’s Tiger for Your PC

I’d just like to say that there are not enough “How I Installed OS X on my Dell.” Here’s my contribution, in twelve easy steps.

1) Get tiger-x86.tar.bz2

2) Unpack tiger-x86-flat.img to a separate NTFS hard drive

3) Load up the system with the Knoppix Live CD

4) If the drive from step 2 is external, attach it and let Knoppix automount it

5) Open up a terminal

• Use su to become root
• Switch to the directory Knoppix mounted from step 4 (look in /mnt/)
• Execute ls –all to verify that the .img file exists
• Execute dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/hda, where hda is the *drive* you wish to install to. hda=drive 1, hdb=drive 2, etc

6) When it has finished copying, reboot and select the drive you want as the startup from the BIOS or boot menu