rct for mac

Knowing a little something about operating systems (having hacked BSD, Linux, and Mach kernels, and taught undergraduate and graduate operating systems at Michigan), it turns out that the privileges with which the user runs is not always the problem. Any modern OS (XP, OS X, or *n*x) has a raft of daemons running at high priviledge. One buffer overflow in any of them leaves your machine up for grabs.

However, social engineering attacks do rely on the user being both stupid and privileged.

I'm glad they don't make RCT for Macs, don't get me wrong Macs are cool to play with, but PC's just work better with games since the good majority support Microsoft's Operationg Systems 98SE, Me, 2000, NT, XP (I think those are the basics). The Thing I like about macs is the Nice N' Neat Operating System and how they can handle graphics and videos. :)

All I know is that I would really, really love to play RCT3 on these monitors, especially the 4x23" Grand Canyon set-up! :)

http://www.go-l.com/monitors/index.htm

These are the high end cars of the the computer world...

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Brian Noble said:
Any modern OS (XP, OS X, or *n*x) has a raft of daemons running at high priviledge. One buffer overflow in any of them leaves your machine up for grabs.

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Any administrator who runs those daemons as a user that has HIGH privilige don't know what the heck they're doing (too bad it's not easy to change how Windows' services run without affecting something). A properly set up UNIX should have most of its daemons running as the user

nobody

. My router is such system, except some daemons even have its own dedicated user (like Apache) with certain priviliges, etc. When set up properly, it's virtually impossible to exploit UNIX with major damages. However the real damage comes to...

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However, social engineering attacks do rely on the user being both stupid and privileged.

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...social engineering. You're right. This is where UNIX has it right pretty much, it's hard to socially engineer someone on an UNIX system with its' infinite sets of checks (again, if set up properly). It's way too easy to socially engineer a Windows user.

Back to the topic, I haven't heard any suggestions about what OS to use for RCT under Virtual PC. I think I'll go ahead and install Windows 98 if no one else objects.

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DC2Beltz3 said:
I'm glad they don't make RCT for Macs, don't get me wrong Macs are cool to play with, but PC's just work better with games since the good majority support Microsoft's Operationg Systems 98SE, Me, 2000, NT, XP (I think those are the basics).

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Huh? PCs work "better" with games? Where did that come from? They both work equally well. Both have OpenGL, pretty much the same 3D accelerated cards, etc. Just because more games run under Windows doesn't mean that the games work "better" on Windows. High quality games tend to be available for both platforms like Unreal Tournament 2003, 2004, SimCities, NoLimits, etc.

Mac and PC these days are really just a preference.

JetCoaster: some of them *need* to be privileged, because they open privileged ports or perform otherwise sensitive operations This includes nfsd and friends, afsd and friends, sshd, sendmail, etc. nobody gets you halfway there, but only for daemons that don't need privilege to do their job. There really ought to be a more fine-grained way of assigning priviledge---OpenBSD does this reasonably well, but most systems pile *everything* on to root. You can bend over backwards with file perms to get rid of many instances where root is required, but 95% of the universe doesn't.