Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Mar 2006 15:52 UTC, submitted by netpython
Gaining root access to a Mac is 'easy pickings', according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability. On February 22, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and folders or install applications. Within hours of going live, the 'rm-my-mac' competition was over. The challenger posted this message on his Web site: "This sucks. Six hours later this poor little Mac was owned and this page got defaced".
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2006-01-01
OS X is based on OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP. IIRC NeXT owned the sourcecode to OPENSTEP outright. Apple owns OPENSTEP via the NeXT buyout, so they own the sourcecode. They can do what they like with it, so long as they credit any parts of the BSD codebase they include within their product - which they seem to do.