Security Hole Discovered in Mac OS X

Delfim Machado made public a way of crashing a password-protected screensaver and thus giving full access to the user account that the screensaver was running under. All a user has to do is to keep pressing any key for 5 minutes or so and then pressing Enter. Delfim Machado contacted Apple’s Security department with his discovery, but when he didn’t hear back, he decided to go public.

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