You know, there's one other thing that bugs me about this. Everyone (myself included) is waiting for the first real OS X virus. You know, a real OS virus that takes advantage of buffer overflows or gaps in permission settings, the kind that slips into a thousand systems overnight without anyone noticing. That would be news. Stuff like this, though, is nonsense. It takes nothing to write a script that does nasty stuff, use it as a replacement for the installer script for some warezed copy of Photoshop or Doom and release it on usenet. It is no more of a security threat than phoning up a user at home and convincing him to erase this silly folder called "/" on his hard drive. Trouble is, when some idiot reporter from AP reads this thread and writes about how "Mac isn't so secure after all", Mac's halo loses some of its lustre. For nothing.
